Member Spotlight: Measuring and Encouraging Open Research at the University of Manchester
July 11th, 2024
The following blog is based on a portion of a recent webinar exploring the current state of open science adoption. You can watch the full recording here. Scott Taylor from...
Tags: Open Science, OSF Institutions, Member Spotlight
Guest Post — Empowering Education Research: The POWER of Collaboration and Open Science
July 9th, 2024
In education research, collaboration and knowledge sharing are paramount. However, for researchers who identify as women and non-binary in the field, access to resources and...
Tags: Open Science, Inclusivity and Collaboration, Data Management, Education Research
Guest Post — Year of Open Science Recap: Perspectives from a COS Ambassador
June 26th, 2024
As a proud ambassador of the Center for Open Science (COS), I was thrilled to witness the culmination of efforts at the Year of Open Science Culminating Conference, supported by...
Tags: Open Science, NASA, Year of Open Science, Inclusivity and Collaboration, YOS, Scholarly Communication, UNESCO, Grassroots Initiatives, Research Assessment, Federal Agencies, Policy Advocacy
Member Spotlight: Florida State University's Open Scholars Project and Advancing Open Science Through Communities of Practice
June 11th, 2024
The Open Scholars Project (OSP) is a community of practice for researchers and practitioners who are curious about open access publishing, open science, and FAIR data at Florida...
Tags: Open Science, Member Spotlight, Data Transparency
Preprint Collective Fundraising Success
May 29th, 2024
Preprint communities came together to advance the long-term sustainability of their services through a collective fundraising campaign in 2023. The impetus for the campaign is...
Tags: OSF Preprints, preprints, Infrastructure, Open Science
Guest Post — A COS Ambassador’s Journey Toward Openness Where it is Most Necessary
May 15th, 2024
For the past two years, I've been an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science (COS), and throughout my journey, I've actively contributed to the COS's mission of promoting...
Tags: Ambassador, Open Science
Join the SMART Project: Advancing Automated Research Evaluation
May 13th, 2024
Ensuring trust in scientific research is an ongoing endeavor crucial for maintaining public confidence in the scientific process. At the Center for Open Science (COS), we're...
Tags: Reproducibility, Research, Open Science, SMART
Recap of the Year of Open Science Culminating Conference
May 7th, 2024
The Year of Open Science Culminating Conference, convened by the Center for Open Science (COS) through support by NASA and in collaboration with several organizations, was held on...
Tags: Open Science, Year of Open Science
COS and the EQUATOR Network are Working Together to Improve Research
May 2nd, 2024
Among many of its goals, Open Science is a movement toward better, clearer research. Working toward that goal requires coordinated effort, and it is for that reason that a...
Tags: Open Science
Making It Easy to Make Specialized Research FAIR: Introducing Field-Specific Metadata Templates for OSF
April 18th, 2024
A new OSF feature makes it possible and easy for researchers to make their research FAIR by annotating their research artifacts with specialized metadata. The feature is enabled...
Tags: Community, Metadata, FAIR research

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