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Making open and rigorous research possible and easy.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

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What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

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Research lifecycle with OSF

Products Powered by OSF

OSF Institutions

Do you work in an institutional library and need tools or infrastructure to support open science practices? Do you need to help researchers in your organization share research outputs?

OSF Institutions provides researchers, librarians, support staff, and administrators tools and insights on OSF to accelerate open science practices. OSF Institutions can help research administrators meet policy requirements, librarians track research outputs and activity, and improve researcher workflow efficiency with integrated tools.

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OSF Collections

Do you help coordinate research? Do you need to highlight best practices and encourage open and transparent research within your community?

OSF Collections is a repository of submitted OSF projects built for sharing, searching, aggregating and promoting a body of research works. Collections enable research communities to set norms and advance open research practices collectively.

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OSF Registries

Is improving research quality and rigor and encouraging research transparency part of your role? Do you need to track study outputs and enforce policy compliance?

OSF Registries are scholarly repositories built for archiving, sharing, searching, and aggregating research plans, designs, data, and outcomes. Community-developed and custom templates on OSF Registries ensure that registrations are fit-for-purpose to increase research rigor and accelerate adoption of preregistration, data and sharing management plans, and other research planning behaviors. 

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OSF Preprints

Is sharing open scholarship for your discipline, community, institution, geographic area your focus? Do you need to provide a solution for meeting open-access publication requirements?

OSF Preprints are repositories for sharing research papers, results, summaries, and other reports. Communities and organizations can launch a branded preprint service on OSF Preprints to freely share and discover working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, articles under review, postprints, and open access papers. 

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Pricing Overview

  Institutions Collections Preprints Registries OSF User
Basic Membership $5000 $5000 See pricing $5000 Free
Dedicated Project Manager Included Included N/A Included N/A
SSO Included Not included Not included Not included ORCiD
Public Branded OSF Page Included Included Included Included N/A
OSF Community Resources Included Included Included Included Not included
Training Workshops Can be added Can be added Can be added Can be added Can be added
Included Interfaces Discovery, Private Insights Dashboard Submission + custom metadata   Submission +  registration overview  
Custom Templates       $2000-4000  
Template Update       $1000  
Storage Per object /node cap - 10 GB for private, 100 GB for public 

Negotiable for larger caps
Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public  5 GB document size limit Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public  Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public 
Custom Domain $250 $250   $250  
Bulk Upload       $2000  
Outcome reporting In progress In progress   In progress  
Logic forms functionality In progress In progress   In progress  
Integration Maintenance          

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