OSF Research Lifecycle
OSF on Track to Reach Half a Million Users by Midyear 2022
April 7th, 2022
The growth in the open science research community shows no signs of slowing down. Nowhere is that more evident than in the number of users of the Open Science Framework (OSF), an...
Tags: Openscience, OSF, open science initiatives
Consciousness Research
New Grant in Consciousness Research with $1.125M to be Awarded to Consciousness Researchers who use the Registered Reports Model
April 5th, 2022
In collaboration with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and with funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), we are very excited to...
Tags: open science initiatives, Registered Reports, Webinar, Consciousness
Watch the Updating Registration Webinar
April 4th, 2022
Open Science aims to make scientific processes more transparent and the results more accessible to the research community. Preregistration is one of the available open science...
Tags: OSF, Community, Academia
How OSF Registries are Advancing Childhood Neurocognitive Development Research
March 29th, 2022
As any teacher – or even any parent with more than one child knows – social development in children occurs at different rates and manifests in an enormous variety of personality...
Tags: Science, OSF, OSF Registries, open science initiatives, Open Source
Improvements to TOP Factor
February 28th, 2022
An enhanced TOP Factor journal interface has been released, which provides a more interactive view of journal ratings, increases transparency of the scoring process, and provides...
Tags: Transparency, TOP, TOP Guidelines, Industry
OSF reached a pinnacle of 400,000 registered users
December 14th, 2021
The Open Science Framework (OSF), an open-source research collaboration and management platform by the Center for Open Science (COS), just achieved 400,000 worldwide registered...
Tags: Openness, OSF, Open Science, Culture Change
Dr. Derek Isaacowitz answers some questions about the importance of open science in aging research, how to implement open science practices, and next steps for the field.
Open Science in Aging Research: an Interview with Dr. Derek Isaacowitz
December 3rd, 2021
Does open science apply to my field? It’s a contentious question that will garner a range of responses. If you are a researcher studying aging, however, there is one scientist who...
Tags: Open Science, Culture Change, aging research, oskb
Leveraging the OSF for large-scale collaboration
November 8th, 2021
There is substantial interest in the extent to which published findings in socio-behavioral sciences (SBS) are reproducible. While large-scale replication projects in psychology...
COS hosts FUSF preprint server FocUS Archive, providing a nexus for information sharing in the focused ultrasound community
November 4th, 2021
In 2016, the Focused Ultrasound Foundation funded a clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a focused ultrasound treatment for Essential Tremor (ET) which yielded...
Transform and support the research lifecycle with transparency
Preregistration: A Plan for Communities, Not a Prison for Researchers
October 20th, 2021
Preregistration is the process of specifying key study and analysis details and decisions before conducting the experiment. The main goal of preregistering one’s research is to...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Community, Culture Change, OSF Registries

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