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Effort to repeat key cancer biology experiments reveals challenges and opportunities to improve replicability
Dec. 7, 2021 Press kit Charlottesville, VA — A large-scale systematic investigation to replicate high-impact, preclinical cancer biology experiments identified barriers to conducting...
COS receives the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research
Nov. 24, 2021 Charlottesville, VA – The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected as the inaugural institutional recipient of the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in...
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Introducing the Real World Evidence Study Registry
Oct. 26, 2021 Charlottesville, VA — ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research and the Center for Open Science (COS) are pleased to announce the launch of the ...
COS receives $18M from Flu Lab to improve biomedical research culture
Sep. 8, 2021 Charlottesville, VA – The Center for Open Science (COS) has received a five-year award totaling $18 million from Flu Lab to accelerate COS's mission to increase openness,...
COS Welcomes Lisa Cuevas Shaw as COO and Managing Director
Jul. 7, 2021 Charlottesville, VA — The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Cuevas Shaw as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, effective July...
Initial evidence that Registered Reports are associated with greater research rigor and quality
Jun. 24, 2021 An observational study finds Registered Reports outperform comparison articles when peer reviewed on 19 outcome criteria. Charlottesville, VA — The Registered Reports publishing...
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The Center for Open Science Welcomes Two New Members to its Board of Directors
May. 26, 2021 Charlottesville, VA — The Center for Open Science (COS) is pleased to announce the recent appointments of Elaine Chen (Tufts) and Elaine L. Westbrooks (University of North...
Europe PubMed Central now indexing PsyArXiv preprints
May. 14, 2021 Submissions to the community preprint server are now discoverable in Europe PMC’s robust archive of scholarly literature in the life sciences. Charlottesville, VA — The Center...
Focused Ultrasound Foundation launches new open research repository
Apr. 20, 2021 Charlottesville, VA — The Focused Ultrasound Foundation has taken a new step toward its mission to accelerate scientific discovery by launching a body of scholarship dedicated to...
SHARE open dataset, endless possibilities
Nov. 20, 2020 The openly developed SHARE infrastructure — launched in 2013 in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) — will undergo a change in scope, shifting toward...
Replications of replications suggest that prior failures to replicate were not due to failure to replicate well
Nov. 13, 2020 Critics said that a well-known psychology replication project failed to replicate findings because the replications had problems. Replications of the replications suggest...
APA Joins as New Signatory to TOP Guidelines
Nov. 10, 2020 Charlottesville, VA — The American Psychological Association (APA), the nation's largest organization representing psychologists and psychological researchers has become a...

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