Posts tagged with 'research best practices'

Q&A with Benjamin Korman: Sharing Research on Participatory Digital Media in Japanese Museums
August 18th, 2025
When Benjamin Korman began his graduate research at Tokyo University of the Arts, he set out to explore how museums in Japan integrate digital media—even though he’d initially...
Tags: Transparency, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Education
"We Are Metascience": Conference Partners Enable a Momentous Metascience 2025
August 11th, 2025
The global metaresearch community marked a significant milestone last month with Metascience 2025, the fourth event in the Metascience biennial conference series presented by the ...
Tags: Community, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, metascience, Metascience Alliance, metaresearch, Metascience2025
Introducing the Simulation Studies Preregistration Template: Q&A with Björn S. Siepe, František Bartoš, and Samuel Pawel
July 29th, 2025
In 2023, COS launched a Preregistration Template Evaluation Working Group to help curate, evaluate, and promote high-quality preregistration templates that reflect the needs of...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Simulation Studies
Introducing Linked Services: A Simpler Way to Connect Research Tools to OSF
July 16th, 2025
Researchers rely on a wide range of tools throughout the research lifecycle for storing data, analyzing results, writing papers, and sharing outcomes. The OSF helps bring those...
Tags: OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Open Science, Integrations, Metadata
Q&A with Amélie Godefroidt: Building Trust and Transparency in Complex, Sensitive Research
July 16th, 2025
Open science practices are embedded throughout Amélie Godefroidt’s research, which explores public opinion during and after wars, civil conflicts, and terrorist attacks. As a...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Education
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
Q&A with Researcher Don Moore: Studying Overconfidence, Practicing Transparency
May 19th, 2025
Don Moore studies overconfidence in its many forms—including when people overestimate their abilities, their knowledge, or how they compare to others. This type of bias can show...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Community, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science
Building a Better Open Source Ecosystem
Building a Better Open Source Ecosystem: Lessons from Growing the OSF Open Source Community
May 13th, 2025
Over the past year, we’ve listened to open source communities around the world—learning from their challenges, growth trajectories, and the strategies that sustain them. In 2025,...
Tags: OSF, Community, Research Best Practices, Open Science, Add-ons, Open Source, Inclusivity and Collaboration
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Choosing the Right Preregistration Template: A Guide for Researchers
April 24th, 2025
The following blog is based on a recent COS webinar. You can watch the full recording here. Preregistration is increasingly recognized as a key open science practice that...
Tags: OSF, Collaboration, Platform, Research Best Practices, Open Science
The Reforms Are Working: Evidence That the Credibility of Social-Behavioral Sciences Can Be Improved
November 9th, 2023
Update: The paper mentioned in this blog has since been retracted. Read the authors' summary response. The landscape of social-behavioral sciences, particularly psychology,...
Tags: Replication, Reproducibility, Research, Research Best Practices, Open Science, Replicability

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