Accelerating Scholarly Review, Publishing, and Discovery

osfpreprints

OSF Preprints is open source infrastructure for communities to advance open scholarship dissemination. It is built using the core OSF platform, connecting workflows for planning, sharing, reporting, and discovering research openly and transparently.

We developed OSF Preprints to meet these major goals:

Facilitate and accelerate new models of scholarly communication across multiple research disciplines
Improve accessibility of scholarship
Facilitate timely feedback on scholarship
Address delays of research publishing
Improve scholarly communication
Provide a single search interface to access preprints and papers from many disciplinary services

Share Work

OSF Preprints makes sharing research as easy as uploading a file and including key metadata. Post your work, solicit feedback, and tag categories for others to find, comment on, and engage with you.

Connect the Research

OSF Preprints integrates OSF project infrastructure, allowing researchers to include supplemental data, materials, code or other information alongside their preprint. These files can be stored on OSF Storage or through connected services like Github, Dropbox, AmazonS3, Box, GoogleDrive, OwnCloud and others.

Improve Discoverability

Published preprints are indexed in a number of search indexes, as well as OSF search. Preprints are indexed in Web of Science, Google Scholar, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, and others.

You build the community. We've built the infrastructure.

COS provides preprint hosting solutions to communities interested in building a preprint service for a specific discipline, research topic, geography or other commonality. The branded preprint services are built on OSF Preprints infrastructure, a shared toolset for file upload, sharing, persistence, and discovery.

These allow communities to focus their efforts on generating research, not on managing research infrastructure.

The service can be configured to match each organization's brand, editorial focus, licensing requirements, and taxonomy. Once configured, a new service can be up and collecting new preprints in a matter of days.

Control the Quality of Submissions

Preprint submissions to your service can be moderated for quality and compliance, either pre- or post-publication, to ensure the integrity of the content. Admins can enable one or more moderators to check for copyright, accuracy and fitness using your editorial policies. Authors and moderators both receive notifications on the status of any submission.

Sustainability and Costs

OSF Preprints is an open infrastructure made sustainable by a distributed cost model that leverages the diverse community of supporters interested in individual research communities or in support of open scholarship more generally. Preprints are a powerful form of open -access scholarship and are a key component of an open and transparent research lifecycle. They are also an exceptional value: communities hosted by OSF are currently able to provide these services for free to both researchers and readers.

Preprints accelerate the sharing of discoveries, improving transparency, collaboration, and reproducibility. Preprints are critical infrastructure for advancing research - fast, free, and accessible to all.

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