Posts tagged with 'policy'

Announcing the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan
July 30th, 2026
Strategic Planning Committee members are: Maria Gould (DataCite), Joel Gurin (CODE), Robert Hanisch (Campostella Research and Consulting), Kristi Holmes (Northwestern University),...
Tags: Community, Policy, Policy Advocacy, Research Data
What OMB’s Proposed Grantmaking Revisions Could Mean for Research Integrity
June 30th, 2026
The Center for Open Science (COS) has submitted a public comment opposing several proposed revisions detailed in the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) proposed...
Tags: Policy, Policy Advocacy, Research Integrity
Announcing a New Resource for Journals and Publishers: Journal Implementation Guidance for TOP 2025
May 28th, 2026
Recent work led by the Center for Open Science (COS) found that papers published in journals with strong data and code sharing policies were more readily reproducible. COS has...
Tags: TOP Guidelines, Policy, TOP 2025
Demystifying Open Science Policy for Funders
April 24th, 2026
This blog post is based on a webinar that explored how funders develop, implement, and manage open science policies. The panel featured two funding organizations, Stiftelsen Dam...
Tags: TOP, TOP Guidelines, Open Science, Funders, Policy
TOP in Action: Modeling TOP Implementation for Funders
January 15th, 2026
The Center for Open Science (COS) envisions research that is open across the lifecycle — linking the plans to research outputs to final outcomes. By making the basis of research...
Tags: TOP Guidelines, Funders, Policy
From Policy to Practice
From Policy to Practice: COS’s Commitment to Applying the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines
November 20th, 2025
The Center for Open Science’s (COS) mission is to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research by promoting research that is transparent, linked, and...
Tags: TOP, TOP Guidelines, Policy
Advancing Data-Driven Policy: How Justice Innovation Lab Uses OSF to Strengthen Randomized Clinical Trial Design and Transparency
June 23rd, 2025
The Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) is a nonprofit organization that works to create a more equitable, effective, and fair criminal justice system by developing and implementing...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Community, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Policy, Policy Advocacy
The NSF Wants You to Help Shape the Future of Science. Here’s How.
January 12th, 2024
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is entering a new era with the release of NSF Public Access Plan 2.0, a significant update to existing public access requirements. Responding...
Tags: Open Science, Policy, OSTP
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NIH Wants to Hear From You on Advancing the Promise of Open Science
February 23rd, 2023
Great news on advancing open science. NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) became effective January 25, 2023 and requires “NIH-supported researchers to...
Tags: Open Science, Culture Change, Policy
Watch the Supporting Open Science in the Promotion & Tenure Process: Lessons from the University of Maryland Webinar
October 7th, 2022
The academic promotion and tenure process establishes the incentive structure for institutions of higher education. Open science champions have long advocated for the process to...
Tags: Community, Open Science, Culture Change, Education, Policy, Webinar

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