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  • Open Science Practices

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  • Scholarly research increasingly emphasizes open and transparent practices.
  • While some behavior analytic research elements are transparently communicated, archiving study materials for replication is uncommon.

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  • To review Transparent and Open Practices guidelines from the Open Science Foundation.
  • To provide instructions for behavior analysts on utilizing GitHub for research transparency.
  • To demonstrate GitHub as a platform for archiving technical, data-driven, and collaborative research.

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  • Review of Open Science Foundation's Transparent and Open Practices guidelines.
  • Exploration of GitHub as a platform for archiving research materials.
  • Step-by-step instructions for using GitHub: account creation, repository initialization, file archiving, and synchronization.

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  • GitHub is presented as a suitable service for publicly archiving diverse research elements.
  • Detailed examples illustrate the process of using GitHub for transparent research archiving.
  • The tutorial covers essential GitHub functionalities for researchers.

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  • Archiving platforms like GitHub can support transparent research in behavior analysis.
  • Increased calls for transparency and modern statistical methods necessitate such tools.
  • Adoption of GitHub can facilitate replication and advance the field of behavior analysis.