Center for Open Science

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Introducing COS’s 2026–2028 Strategic Plan: Advancing Lifecycle Open Science
February 19th, 2026
The Center for Open Science (COS) has released its 2026–2028 Strategic Plan, outlining a focused, three-year direction for advancing openness, integrity, and trustworthiness in...
Researcher Q&A: Introducing Open Science in a College of Allied Health Sciences
February 4th, 2026
Even with strong interest and enthusiasm within an institution, open science cannot implement itself. Meaningful adoption of open practices requires common language, accessible...
Tags: preprints, Transparency, OSF, Community, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Training, Research Tools
Introducing the EEG and ERP Methods Template: Q&A with Gisela Govaart and Antonio Schettino
January 29th, 2026
Preregistration is a key open science practice that helps researchers plan studies in advance by specifying hypotheses, methods, and analysis plans before collecting or analyzing...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Social Sciences
Introducing the Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science Preregistration Template: Q&A with Andrew Cesare Miller
January 29th, 2026
Social scientists routinely use theory to make predictions about future events—from electoral outcomes to conflict dynamics to policy effects. These predictions help shape public...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Social Sciences
Building the Open Science Ecosystem: A Recap and Future Vision
December 12th, 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s an opportune moment to reflect on how far the OSF Open Science Ecosystem (OSE) initiative has come, celebrate what we accomplished this year, and...
Tags: Infrastructure, OSF, Collaboration, Open Source, Open Source Ecosystem
It Takes a Campus: Building Cross-Campus Collaborations to Support Research Computing and Data Needs
December 8th, 2025
This blog post is based on a webinar that explored how institutions develop cross-campus models to meet changing research and computing data needs. The panel featured presenters...
Tags: Collaboration, Community, Open Science, Academia, Data Management, Librarians
Expanding Our Work in the EU: An Update on COS's Next Steps
Expanding Our Work in the EU: An Update on COS's Next Steps
December 4th, 2025
For more than a decade, the Center for Open Science (COS) has advanced openness, integrity, and trustworthiness in research worldwide. This work has connected us with researchers,...
Tags: Open Science
Predicting Replicability Challenge: Round 1 Results and Round 2 Opportunity
November 24th, 2025
Replicability refers to observing evidence for a prior research claim in data that is independent of the prior research. It is one component of establishing credibility of...
Tags: Replication, Reproducibility, Research, Collaboration, Replicability
Libraries and Open Science
Libraries and Open Science: Overlaps and Gaps with the Research Community
November 18th, 2025
This blog post is based on a webinar that explored how libraries and research communities collaborate on open science initiatives. View the recording here.Academic libraries...
Tags: Community, Open Science, Data Management, Librarians
Metascience Alliance
Growing the Coalition: Where the Metascience Alliance Is Headed
November 7th, 2025
Improving research works best when efforts are coordinated, not fragmented. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition for coordination and collaboration, connecting stakeholders,...
Tags: Research, Collaboration, metascience, Metascience Alliance

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