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OSF 2020 Community Milestones, and Looking Ahead
December 16th, 2020
In 2020, OSF users collectively created over 20,000 new registrations, made nearly 2 million files publicly available, and shared more than 24,000 preprints. Research consumers...
Qualitative Preregistration
December 10th, 2020
Against the backdrop of an alleged reproducibility crisis and awareness of researcher misbehavior, the practice of preregistration is enjoying increasing popularity — especially...
Tags: Preregistration, Qualitative Preregistration
Improving the quality and specificity of preregistration
December 9th, 2020
Dr. Marjan Bakker, Tilburg University — Preregistration, which is specifying a research plan in advance of the study, is seen as one of the most important ways to improve the...
Tags: Preregistration, Registrations
You can help open science become the norm.
November 19th, 2020
Our collective vision to change the research culture is becoming a reality. For example, you may be noticing that:  Funders are rethinking their policies to promote greater...
A Year of Open Science
November 16th, 2020
"Show me" not "trust me": Science doesn't ask for trust, it earns trust with transparency. The credibility of science has center stage in 2020. A raging pandemic. Partisan...
The Open Research Lifecycle
October 23rd, 2020
Society invests billions of dollars in research each year, and too much of that investment goes to waste. Researchers are rewarded for sensational findings rather than rigorous...
Atención! OSF Help Resources Now Available in Spanish
October 23rd, 2020
Science will not meet its potential until the research culture enables and supports contributors from all backgrounds and circumstances and contributions of all kinds based on the...
Shared Investment in OSF Sustainability
September 29th, 2020
We launched the Open Science Framework (OSF) in 2012 as infrastructure to support our mission to change the research culture toward openness, integrity, and reproducibility. With...
Tags: OSF, Storage, Add-ons, Sustainability
Branded Registries: Empowering communities to improve research rigor
September 24th, 2020
Our aim at COS is to change research culture by empowering communities of practice with the tools they need to improve scientific rigor in their fields. Now with our latest...
Tags: Preregistration, Registrations, OSF Registries
Crowdsourcing preprint reviews: PREreview and COS call for feedback on infrastructure integration
September 24th, 2020
COS is excited to collaborate with PREreview to increase the trust in preprints through peer review integration opportunities for authors who choose to upload their manuscripts to...
Tags: OSF Preprints, preprints, Peer Review, PREreview

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