Towards minimal reporting standards for life scientists
November 1st, 2018
Transparency in reporting benefits scientific communication on many levels. While specific needs and expectations vary across fields, the effective use of research findings...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Research Best Practices, TOP Guidelines
Interview: Randy McCarthy discusses his experiences with publishing his first Registered Report
October 15th, 2018
Registered Reports is a publishing format in which peer review occurs before results are known. This changes the equation of scientific publishing. Reviewers are focused on...
Tags: Preregistration, Research Best Practices
Why pre-registration might be better for your career and well-being
October 9th, 2018
Registered Reports is a publishing format in which peer review occurs before results are known. This changes the equation of scientific publishing. Reviewers are focused on...
Tags: Preregistration, Research Best Practices
Open Science is a Behavior.
September 12th, 2018
Katie Corker's closing remarks from the SIPS 2018 meeting in Grand Rapids, MI on June 26, 2018 offer a hopeful and actionable view of open science in psychology. With the last...
Tags: Scientific Method & Process
The Landscape of Open Data Policies
August 29th, 2018
Note: This post was updated on November 7, 2018 to reflect the changes recently implemented by Wiley, described here. The original version of this post can be found on the ...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Research Best Practices, TOP Guidelines, Transparency & Reproducibility
How Open Commenting on Preprints Can Increase Scientific Transparency: An Interview With the Directors of PsyArxiv, SocArxiv, and Marxiv
August 6th, 2018
We believe more discourse around research is a good thing. To that end, we have partnered with Hypothesis, a third-party platform, to allow for annotation and discussion on our...
Using OSF in the Lab
July 20th, 2018
One of the challenges in shifting to more open research practices is finding examples to give you an idea of where to start. To address this challenge we are introducing a new...
We are Now Registering Preprint DOIs with Crossref
July 11th, 2018
We hear from lots of users about how important Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are to their work DOIs ensure persistent links to content and enhance discoverability of one’s...
The Prereg Challenge Is Ending. What's Next?
June 12th, 2018
The Preregistration Challenge was launched in 2016 as an education campaign designed to initiate a new habit among empirical researchers. Now that the Challenge is in its closing...
Tags: Preregistration
Preprints: The What, The Why, The How.
June 4th, 2018
The use of preprint servers by scholarly communities is definitely on the rise. Many developments in the past year indicate that preprints will be a huge part of the research...

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