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What's all the buzz about? Open science and transparency practices are hot topics in the scientific community and in the media at large. Read about COS, our projects, and related news below.

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Do social science research findings published in Nature and Science replicate?

Aug. 27, 2018 | Replications of 21 high-profile social science findings demonstrate challenges for reproducibility and suggest solutions to improve research credibility.

Call for Chair to lead the TOP Coordinating Committee

Aug. 20, 2018 | The Coordinating Committee for the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines and the Center for Open Science are seeking candidates for the position of Chairperson to lead the committee and promote its mission.

Hypothesis Annotation Now Live on COS Open Science Framework Preprints

July 24, 2018 | Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) announced their collaboration to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the growing community of preprint servers hosted on OSF. Today, we are proud to announce that open annotation is now live.

The latest winners of the Prereg Prize

July 13, 2018 | Taking the #PreregChallenge means that you are doing your part to make science better. Preregistration increases the credibility of your findings by making more clear which hypotheses you set out to test.

The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service

June 25, 2018 | AfricArXiv is the twenty-first community preprint service built on COS’s flagship platform, OSF, which helps researchers design and manage their project workflow, data storage, DOIs, and collaboration.

The Center for Open Science Receives Grants from John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust and Templeton World Charity Foundation to Expand Its Open Science Activities

June 14, 2018 | The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce the receipt of three, multi-year grants from the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, and Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Open Science Projects Collaborate on Joint Roadmap

May 11, 2018 | A group of organizations building nonprofit, open-source tools for scholarship and publication has joined with open-science researchers in a new collaboration to develop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST).

Spies to resign from CTO role to focus on SHARE and other opportunities

Feb. 16, 2018 | Jeffrey Spies, co-founder of the Center for Open Science (COS), is leaving his role as Chief Technology Officer on March 16.

Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation

Feb. 8, 2018 | To enable peer feedback, collaboration and transparency in scientific research practices, Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) are announcing a new partnership to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the 17 community preprint servers hosted on OSF.

Announcing the Latest Prereg Prize Winners

Jan. 3, 2018 | Taking the #PreregChallenge means that you are doing your part to make science better. Preregistration increases the credibility of your findings by making more clear which hypotheses you set out to test.

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