At the Center for Open Science, we believe an open exchange of ideas accelerates scientific progress toward solving our most persistent problems.
OSF is moving toward a more focused role in supporting open science across the research lifecycle. As open research infrastructure has matured, COS is focusing OSF on the areas where it can provide distinctive value and narrowing its scope to one that COS can sustain over the long term.
This means phasing out OSF Projects as an active collaboration and storage workspace. Going forward, OSF will focus on study planning and preregistration, community-run preprint services, and linking research records across systems.
We envision a future scholarly community in which the process, content, and outcomes of research are openly accessible by default.
We maintain the Open Science Framework (OSF) to help researchers conduct research more rigorously, and manage and share their work more openly.
From individuals to institutions, we educate, train, and support research communities and their affiliates toward greater adoption of open and reproducible practices.
We conduct research on research practices to understand areas of inefficiency, and to evaluate interventions to improve.
Research is more than a publication. Lifecycle Open Science makes the full path of research easier to follow by linking what was planned, what was produced, and what was found — even when those parts live in different places.
When the research record is linked and findable, it becomes easier to understand, evaluate, reuse, and build on.
Create a time-stamped registration of any OSF project, or begin a preregistration prior to your study to increase the transparency and quality of your research.
Link your study plans and preprints to related data, materials, code, publications, and other results stored elsewhere, creating a clearer research record across systems.
Sharing a paper or preprint on OSF accelerates scholarly communication, feedback that can improve the work, and discoverability of research. It only takes a few minutes.
When you support COS, you’re helping to change the culture toward more open, rigorous, reproducible research. Support open science with a donation today.
Our blog and YouTube channel provide excellent information about open research best practices.
COS has an amazing team of researchers, designers, developers, and communicators that help move open science forward. View our openings.
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