Continue making design improvements to streamline the research lifecycle activities on OSF through heuristic design evaluation and user testing.
Launch new interfaces to support communities and stakeholders with promoting and demonstrating openness, transparency, and rigor.
New integrations and developments for the OSF product suite that support open science practices at every stage of the research lifecycle.
Now any research stakeholder can use OSF Collections to create a customizable repository of open scholarship according to their discipline, chosen taxonomy, or research type to improve the visibility and discoverability of open outputs in any given research area. Researchers can discover work or contribute through an easy-to-use submission interface.
Branded Registries on the OSF Registries infrastructure is a new mechanism for research stakeholders seeking to improve transparency in their research area while empowering their community members with rigorous methods. Every branded registry supports community-developed preregistration templates, moderation workflows, and an intuitive interface for registering or discovering research.
Users can enjoy a facelift to their registration’s overview page, with easier navigability to supplemental materials and project information.
Creating a registration on OSF is easier and more intuitive than ever thanks to a reengineered submission workflow. Newly editable metadata fields also allow users to update key information in their registrations at any time.
Project admins and visitors alike can now access a Files page redesign that facilitates easier organization and viewing, FAIR data sharing, and quicker load times. Visitors can more quickly identify file information through an improved hierarchical structure and individual file metadata.
OSF will soon offer templates and workflows for reporting the outcomes of preregistered studies. Preregistration defines study designs and analysis plans to make clear what was planned in advance to allow for more serendipitous findings and to reduce selective reporting. The new reporting workflow will allow researchers to share the outcomes of their planned research along with final data, analysis scripts, and supplemental materials.
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