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title: OSF Institutions Member Resource Hub
description: "Fuel your research journey with OSF, the free, open-source platform built for researchers by researchers.

Effortlessly manage projects, collaborate seamlessly with colleagues, share data and streamline your workflow with OSF. Contextualize your research outputs and make them findable and visible in one centralized location."
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# Discover How OSF Institutions Empowers Academic Research

Access our demo to see how the OSF makes it possible and easy for researchers to make their research FAIR in multiple ways.

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Discover how OSF, a trusted repository, can simplify workflows for your research community and ensure compliance with Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMSP) used by over 90% of research funders.

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A comprehensive set of answers to key questions about how this collaborative platform enhances repositories, supports compliance, and simplifies data management for academic librarians.

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This video provides an overview of the OSF Institutions metrics dashboard. The Dashboard provides valuable insight into researchers at your institution and the content they create. Summary information is available at-a-glance, and in-depth, real-time data provided for fuller analysis.

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#### Stay tuned!

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