Supporting open science practices within your institution can be complex. Researchers need tools and infrastructure, and librarians need efficient ways to manage open-access compliance and research outputs.

OSF Institutions empowers everyone involved – researchers, librarians, support staff, and administrators – with the tools and insights they need to accelerate open science at your institution

Key Features

• Single sign-on for easy access
• Branded landing page for your institution
• Dedicated project manager
• Automatic aggregation of OSF projects & OSF registrations
• Allows for data management and sharing compliance
• Enhances institutional credibility
• Integrates with existing storage solutions
• Reduces platform redundancy

Benefits:

• Librarians: Track research outputs and activity, manage open access compliance, and connect researchers with essential tools for open science.
• Support Staff: Simplify administrative tasks and ensure policy compliance with centralized project management.

OSF Institutions Membership Pricing

Add-Ons

Do you want to curate OSF projects created by your research community? You can curate projects and create custom metadata for this collection with OSF Collections.

OSF Collections provides a curated repository for showcasing submitted OSF projects. It empowers communities to share, search, aggregate, and promote a body of research, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.

Key Features

• Branding landing page
• Add existing projects to your collection as moderator
• Link projects back to your collection

Benefits:

• Showcase best practices and exemplars of open research within your community
• Facilitate collaboration and discovery of relevant research projects
• Encourage researchers to adopt open science principles through a centralized platform
• Empower communities to collectively set norms and advance open research practices

OSF Collections Membership Pricing

Add-Ons

Enhancing research quality and rigor requires robust study design, data management, and transparency. How do you effectively track study outputs and enforce policy compliance for open data and code sharing?

OSF Registries are scholarly repositories designed specifically for archiving, sharing, searching, and aggregating OSF registrations. Community-developed templates ensure registrations are tailored to your field and research goals.

Key Features:

• Findable research
• FAIR compliance
• Centralized registration management
• User role management

Benefits:

• Improve research rigor and transparency by preregistering studies and sharing data openly
• Track project progress, manage versions of research materials, and ensure compliance with institutional policies
• Enhance collaboration by facilitating data sharing and transparency throughout the research lifecycle
• Foster trust and reproducibility in your research by making your research methods and plans openly accessible

OSF Registries Membership Pricing

Add-Ons

Sharing open scholarship and accelerating scientific discovery requires a platform for dissemination and discoverability. How can you provide a solution for meeting open-access publication requirements within your discipline, community, or institution?

OSF Preprints are open repositories specifically designed for sharing research papers, results, summaries, and other reports. Communities and organizations can launch a branded preprint service, enabling researchers to freely share and discover working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and more.

Key Features

• Branded landing page 
• Moderation capacity
• Ease of file uploading and sharing
• Preprint findability

Benefits:

• Accelerate scientific discovery by sharing preprints openly and facilitating early feedback and collaboration
• Meet open-access publication requirements and institutional mandates for research dissemination
• Establish a branded preprint service for your research discipline, community, or institution
• Increase the visibility and impact of your research by sharing it with a wider audience

A Sustainable Open Infrastructure and Cost Model

OSF Preprints is a sustainable open infrastructure supported by a diverse community. A distributed cost model ensures long-term viability. See the table below for a breakdown of OSF Preprints' maintenance costs.