Research and Data Software Tools
COS has developed a variety of software tools, workflows and data storage solutions called OSF to help researchers manage, archive, discover and share research more openly.
Community and Policy Development
COS helps identify, connect, educate, and support 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.
Share Data, Materials or Code
Making your work openly visible to other researchers invites collaboration, allows others to benefit from and build on your work, and facilitates replication. Share your work today!
Share a Paper or Preprint
Sharing a paper or preprint on OSF accelerates scholarly communication, feedback that can improve the work, and discoverability of finished research. Try uploading a paper--it's extremely easy and fast.
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!
When you support COS, you are helping to change the culture and incentives that drive researchers’ behavior towards a more open community. Help support open science with a donation today.Keep up on what's happening here at the Center, get new product updates, and learn more about open science with our blog and video updates.
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