With the Open Science Framework (OSF), COS provides a solution for research producers to open up their research from conception through completion to promote transparency, sharing, and rigor.
The Lifecycle Journal is the conceptual complement of OSF to facilitate the interaction between researchers as producers and consumers to promote credibility assessment, reproducibility, reuse, and self-correction. The combination will align scholarly communication with scholarly values and accelerate knowledge production.
.png?width=415&height=554&name=image%20(4).png)
The early adopter authors of the Lifecycle Journal will get substantial engagement with their research, and help shape the future of the model. Authors can submit research plans or completed reports. Authors will receive assessments from a marketplace of evaluations, and engage in scholarly discourse about one’s approach, evidence, and claims. Any area of scholarship that is represented by at least one peer review service associated with the Lifecycle Journal is eligible for submission.
Several of the review services offer opportunities for scholars to contribute their expertise for evaluating research — from the familiar peer review of completed reports to experimental methods in assessment. Examples of participating evaluation services are listed above. Sign up for updates and information about how to participate as a reviewer or evaluator for one or more of the evaluation services.
Do you run an evaluation service for scholarly research, or do you have an innovative idea for how planned or completed research could be evaluated? Contact us to explore partnering in the marketplace of evaluation services. If you have conceived but not yet developed your approach to evaluation, you can still fill-out the form, and you are encouraged to consider applying for the Astera Institute Entrepreneur-in-Residence program.
Are you interested in conducting research on the Lifecycle Journal or the evaluation services it includes? We will integrate opportunities for metascience research. Sign up for updates about how to partner to conduct research on this project.
210 Ridge McIntire Road
Suite 500
Charlottesville, VA 22903-5083
Email: contact@cos.io
Unless otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Responsible stewards of your support
COS has consistently earned a Guidestar rating of Platinum for its financial transparency, the highest rating available. You can see our profile on Guidestar. COS and the OSF were also awarded SOC2 accreditation in 2023 after an independent assessment of our security and procedures by the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA).
We invite all of our sponsors, partners, and members of the community to learn more about how our organization operates, our impact, our financial performance, and our nonprofit status.
