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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.

Nature Research and Springer Formally Endorse Guidelines that Promote Transparency in the Process of Science

March 16, 2017 | The Center for Open Science is pleased to announce that Nature Research and Springer journals have today become signatories of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines.

Researchers’ Inability to Reproduce Results from Previous Cancer Studies Could Increase Pressure on Clinical Laboratories and Diagnostic Technology Developers

March 9, 2017 | Developers of clinical laboratory tests and medical diagnostic technologies might soon be feeling the pressure to increase their push for transparency and standards that ultimately would make replication easier.

The Center for Open Science Releases Another Branded Preprint Service With BITSS

March 7, 2017 | The new BITSS Preprints is built on COS’s flagship platform, the Open Science Framework, which helps researchers design and manage their project workflow, data storage, DOIs, and collaboration.

Center for Open Science Elects New Board of Directors and Officers

Feb. 28, 2017 | The Center for Open Science announces the election of a new expanded Board of Directors, and the election of Arthur “Skip” Lupia as COS Board chair and Alan G. Kraut as Vice Chair. These appointments are the first in a plan to increase the size of the board to support the mission of the Center for Open Science.

The Center for Open Science Releases Another Branded Preprint Service With AgriXiv

Feb. 15, 2017 | The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce that it has added another branded service to its open source preprints service called AgriXiv.

COS, Science Exchange and eLife release first results of cancer reproducibility project

Jan. 19, 2017 | The first results from the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology have been published in eLife. The aim of the project, which is a collaboration between the Center for Open Science and Science Exchange, is to assess reproducibility in cancer biology, and to identify what influences its success or failure in science more generally.

The Center for Open Science Releases a Comprehensive, Open Source Preprints Solution

Dec. 5, 2016 | The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce that it has extended the capabilities of its new open source preprints service, OSF |Preprints to include branded service capabilities, and has launched three major, new branded versions. The new services, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, and engrXiv, are the first three branded versions of COS’s open source preprints platform, launched today.

Scientific Data Adds the Open Science Framework to Its List of Recommended Repositories

Nov. 14, 2016 | Since their launch in 2014, Scientific Data, a division of Nature, has published descriptions of datasets archived at more than 45 different repositories.

The Center for Open Science Receives Grant from DARPA to Support Its Next Generation Social Science (NGS2) Program

Nov. 14, 2016 | The purpose of this program is to reinvent how social science gets done with a goal to produce process, methodologies, and technologies that will increase reproducibility and accelerate discovery.

Expanding our generalist data repository options

Nov. 14, 2016 | Today’s update adds three additional generalist repositories to our recommended repository list – Harvard Dataverse, Open Science Framework and Zenodo.

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