Wouldn’t it be great if solutions for our most pressing challenges could be found faster and cheaper?
They can. OPEN SCIENCE.


At the Center for Open Science, we believe an open exchange of ideas accelerates scientific progress towards solving our most persistent problems. The challenges of disease, poverty, education, social justice, and the environment are too important and too urgent to waste funding on studies lacking rigor, outcomes that are never shared, and trying to extend results that are irreproducible.


Our mission is to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. We work on ways to make the process, content, and outcomes of research openly accessible for others to discuss and build on. It is possible for all scholarly content to be preserved and connected, and for transparency to be expected and rewarded. Acceleration of scientific progress can be a primary motivator for scholarship and a powerful driver of real solutions.

How do we support open science?

We provide tools, training, support and advocacy for changes in incentives to make research investment go farther, faster, more efficiently.



Research and Data Infrastructure

COS has developed a variety of software tools, workflows and data storage solutions based on our free Open Science Framework to help researchers manage, archive, discover and share research more openly.


Community Development

COS helps identify, connect, educate, and support open science communities of researchers, their affiliated institutions, their funders, and the publishers of research outcomes.


Metascience and Research

COS supports and conducts research on scientific practices to help understand how to make research more effective at solving problems. Our team members are thought leaders on open science and our tools serve as critical research platforms.

How can you support open science?


Spread the Message

Our blog and YouTube channel provide excellent information about how to design and conduct more open research. Help us share these resources, or apply to become an ambassador.


Conduct Your Own Open Research

COS maintains free, easy-to-adopt tools, services, and communities for researchers who wish to develop practices that make their work more accessible and reproducible. 


Help Us Build Things

COS has an amazing team of scientists, designers, developers, and communicators that help move open science forward. Join Us! 


Donate! 

COS provides open source tools that are free to use, but they aren't free to build and maintain. Help support open science with a donation today. 

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Center for Open Science
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Charlottesville, VA 22903-5083
Email: contact@cos.io


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