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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
From Open Science to AI: Benchmarking LLMs on Reproducibility, Robustness, and Replication
October 31st, 2025
At the Center for Open Science (COS), our work is about making research more transparent, rigorous, and verifiable. As AI tools enter the research workflow, we need evidence about...
Tags: Replication, Reproducibility, Research, Collaboration, Replicability, AI
Preprints in Action: Advancing Open Science Across Communication Sciences and Disorders
October 30th, 2025
When researchers Danika Pfeiffer, Austin Thompson, Alisa Baron, Collin Brice, Brittany Ciullo, Micah E. Hirsch, Helen Long, and Andrea Ford posted their latest study on EdArXiv, a...
Tags: preprints, Transparency, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science
Q&A with Maris Vainre: Job Satisfaction and the Power of Preprints
October 30th, 2025
What happens when researchers make their findings openly available before the traditional peer-review and publication process? For Maris Vainre, PhD, and her co-authors, sharing...
Tags: preprints, Transparency, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science
Update on the Future of OSF Preprints
October 16th, 2025
In August 2025, the Center for Open Science (COS) announced a suspension of new submissions to the generalist server hosted on OSF Preprints while we evaluated its role within the...
Tags: OSF Preprints, preprints, Infrastructure, OSF, Open Science

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