Building a Central Service for Preprints
April 30th, 2017
Preprints are hot. The week before last, we described our status and plans for providing open infrastructure to support the growing preprint ecosystem. Last week, we learned that...
A How-To Guide to Improving the Clarity and Continuity of Your Preregistration
April 26th, 2017
Preregistration, specifying your study design and analysis plan before you begin your study, has recently come to the forefront of scientific discussion as one solution to the...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Reproducibility
Public Goods Infrastructure for Preprints and Innovation in Scholarly Communication
April 19th, 2017
Judy Luther offered an insightful birds-eye view of the burgeoning preprints landscape at Scholarly Kitchen yesterday. As she mentioned, the Center for Open Science is...
Tags: publishing, preprints, Research, Infrastructure
Next Steps for Promoting Transparency in Science
April 7th, 2017
Springer Nature just added over 2,100 of their journals as signatories to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, published in Science in 2015. Let that sink in....
Tags: publishing, Transparency, TOP
Interview with Prereg Challenge Award Winner Dr. Allison Skinner
March 27th, 2017
Dr. Allison Skinner is a postdoctoral research associate in the Social Cognitive Development lab and the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington....
Tags: Preregistration, Research, Challenge
How to Manage and Share Your Open Data
March 20th, 2017
Data can be like a gift, something you share for the benefit of others. To that end, the mission of the Center for Open Science is to foster sharing and facilitate research...
Tags: Open, Opendata, Openscience, Repository
3 Things Societies Can Do to Promote Research Integrity
March 1st, 2017
The Wiley Exchanges program does a great job promoting scientific best practices by interviewing subject matter experts on timely topics in research. In this episode, our own...
Tags: publishing, Reproducibility, Research
Open Science and the Marketplace of Ideas
February 24th, 2017
Our mission at COS is to make science more reproducible and dependable. Our strategy to achieve that mission is to make the research process more transparent so that those who...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration
What's Going on With Reproducibility?
February 9th, 2017
You may have heard that the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology (RP:CB) team just released results of 5 major cancer biology studies that they attempted to reproduce. This was...
Tags: Reproducibility, Research, Openscience, RPCB
What Second Graders Can Teach Us About Open Science
January 17th, 2017
Science seems hard. Scientists use fancy words and fancy equipment and study things that few people understand. But, how scientists are supposed to learn things is not so hard to...
Tags: Transparency, Strategy, Reproducibility, Openness, Research

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