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
Strengthening Research Integrity: Trust Markers in the Fight Against Paper Mills
Building Trust and Strengthening Research Integrity: Trust Markers in the Fight Against Paper Mills
May 28th, 2025
Paper mills—covert organizations that provide low-quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients—pose a growing threat to the integrity of academic publishing. These...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Transparency, Reproducibility, Community, Scholarly Communication
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
Call for Volunteers: TOP Guidelines Advisory Board
May 5th, 2025
Would you like to make a difference in how open science is implemented? The Center for Open Science (COS) is currently seeking volunteers to be our colleagues and join the...
Tags: Preregistration, TOP Guidelines, Open Science, Volunteers
Unlocking Global Flourishing Study Data through Preregistration: Researcher Q&A with Dr. Rafael Acevedo
April 28th, 2025
The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is a landmark longitudinal study led by Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of...
Tags: Research, OSF, Open Science
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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
Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave Two Data
April 23rd, 2025
The wave two open researchdataset from theGlobal Flourishing Study (GFS) — one of the most comprehensive studies on wellbeing ever conducted — is now available to researchers. ...
Tags: Research, OSF, Collaboration, Open Science

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