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5 ways to optimize your research workflow with OSF
June 1st, 2020
One of the tenets of open science is open collaboration — the quickening of knowledge exchange and feedback to accelerate discoveries with transparency, and with improved rigor....
Tags: Technology, OSF, Content Management, Collaboration
OSF Collections: What, Why, How
April 23rd, 2020
The COS team is excited to announce the launch of OSF Collections, a place for journals, funders, societies, and research communities that need an archival or active repository...
Tags: research collection, Funders, Journals, discoverability, OSF Collections, Societies, reusability
Open science is more important than ever
April 17th, 2020
Like many of you, the COS team has been working from home since mid-March: managing collaborative work, daily scrums, and technical projects via videoconference while wrangling...
Getting Started with OSF
March 18th, 2020
So you've made an OSF account — awesome! Now you’re ready to get started, but what should you do first? Below are some quick steps you can take for getting your first OSF project...
Tags: Technology, OSF, Content Management, Collaboration
2019 Recap: OSF Growth and Open Knowledge Exchange
February 12th, 2020
The Center for Open Science aims to make science more open, transparent, and reproducible to enhance and accelerate scientific progress and discovery. To do this, we partner with...
Tags: OSF
UBC leads the way as first Canadian institutional OSF member
January 28th, 2020
COS is thrilled to welcome the University of British Columbia (UBC) as the first Canadian institutional OSF member. Read more about UBC’s efforts to provide a supportive open...
Tags: University of British Columbia, OSF Institutions, UBC
Answering Your Preregistration Questions
January 24th, 2020
Preregistration helps guide researchers in distinguishing between confirmatory and exploratory results—both of which are important to scientific progress, but when conflated, may...
Tags: Preregistration, OSF
Re-engineering Ethics Training: An Interview with Dena Plemmons and Erica Baranski
January 21st, 2020
The Institutional Re-engineering of Ethical Discourse in STEM (iREDS) curriculum is a new research ethics training that facilitates interpersonal communications among lab...
Tags: Research Best Practices
Conflict between Open Access and Open Science: APCs are a key part of the problem, preprints are a key part of the solution
January 21st, 2020
Subscription-based publishing business models inhibit open scholarly communication by making consumers of scientific outputs pay to access findings. Open access business models...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing
Approach and vision for the OSF Preprint infrastructure
January 15th, 2020
COS built and maintains the OSF preprints infrastructure in support of the mission to improve the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. We believe that open...
Tags: Technology, Scholarly Publishing

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