The Center for Open Science is a non-profit funded through the generosity of our sponsors and partners.

Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy dedicated to tackling some of the most pressing problems in the United States. Founded by Laura and John Arnold in 2010, Arnold Ventures’ core mission is to improve lives by investing in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. Arnold Ventures funds various types of research to understand problems and identify policy solutions. Arnold Ventures LLC manages the giving for the various Arnold entities, including the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF), Action Now Initiative (ANI), and the Arnolds’ donor-advised fund. Funding from Arnold Ventures (through Laura and John Arnold Foundation) provided the initial funding to launch the Center for Open Science in 2013 and has supported COS operations and provided specific research and programatic support in each of the following years. In 2019 Arnold Ventures has continued its support of COS and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

DARPA, Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) seeks to dramatically advance the assessment of credibility in scientific claims. COS has been selected to: (1) creates a large, enriched dataset of claims and evidence, (2) builds tools to advance the efficiency and scalability of gathering that data, and (3) conducts replications and reproductions of a sample of the claims to test the accuracy of Confidence Scores generated by the other performers.

DARPA's Next Generation Social Science (NGS2) program aims to build new capabilities (methods, models, tools, and a community of researchers) to perform rigorous, reproducible experimental research at scales necessary to understand emergent properties of human social systems. COS serves as the Testing & Evaluation team using OSF as a data management, sharing, and preservation platform; assisting with preregistration of experimental designs and analysis plans for increased rigor and reproducibility; and managing Registered Reports, prediction markets and reproducibility efforts.

The John Templeton Foundation is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements (expanding search tools, adding discovery landing pages, and adding metadata to files and projects to simplify discovery), evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The Templeton World Charity Foundation is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements (expanding search tools, adding discovery landing pages, and adding metadata to files and projects to simplify discovery), evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The Templeton Religion Trust is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements (expanding search tools, adding discovery landing pages, and adding metadata to files and projects to simplify discovery), evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is providing a 2-year grant to support a research effort entitled Transparency of Trust in Open Scholarly Communication. COS will provide, support, and test annotations, icons, and other visual signals of trustworthiness in collaboration with the 21 preprint services hosted on OSF. Signals include badges for open practices, links or other verifications of identity, provenance, or certification such as disclosure of conflicts or notification of what moderation has occurred in evaluating posted preprints.

The National Institute on Aging awarded COS a multi-year grant to focus on adoption of open science practices and incentives for the aging community.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded COS with a grant through the Foundation's 21st Century Science Initiative. This 2 year research project - Naturalistic Evaluation of Registered Reports Impact and Studies will conduct two evaluations of the Registered Reports publishing model.

The John Fetzer Memorial Trust provided COS funds to assist in planning the 2019 Metascience Symposium.

The National Science Foundation awarded subcontracts to COS via the University of California - Riverside for the iREDS project.

Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology is a research initiative to conduct direct replications of 50 high-impact cancer biology studies. The project aims to learn more about predictors of reproducibility, common obstacles to conducting replications, and how the current scientific incentive structure affects research practices.

Grant support for multi-site reproducibility study on Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - COS provided grant management for the project.

LJAF's support of the Preregistration Challenge offers researchers who preregister a study and later have their research efforts published a $1,000 prize. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

DARPA's Next Generation Social Science (NGS2) program aims to build new capabilities (methods, models, tools, and a community of researchers) to perform rigorous, reproducible experimental research at scales necessary to understand emergent properties of human social systems. COS serves as the Testing & Evaluation team using OSF as a data management, sharing, and preservation platform; assisting with preregistration of experimental designs and analysis plans for increased rigor and reproducibility; and managing Registered Reports, prediction markets and reproducibility efforts.

In early 2018, COS was awarded a budget increase to the DARPA Next Generation Social Sciences program. This funding supported a literature review and technical exchange meeting to identify limitations to understanding and predicting complex social systems, and provide solutions to fundamentally change and improve research on complex social systems.

The John Templeton Foundation is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements, evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The John Templeton Foundation also provided funds to support COS's mission and operations

The Templeton World Charity Foundation is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements, evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The Templeton Religion Trust is providing a 3 year grant to support OSF improvements, evaluating preregistration, supporting research communities to cultivate their own path to openness with technologies (preprints, registries, collections) and developing and testing revenue models that will help COS to sustain its public goods and services rather than to primarily rely on philanthropy.

The National Institute on Aging awarded COS a multi-year grant to focus on adoption of open science practices and incentives for the aging community.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded COS with a grant through the Foundation's 21st Century Science Initiative. This 2 year research project - Naturalistic Evaluation of Registered Reports Impact and Studies will conduct two evaluations of the Registered Reports publishing model.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations granted funds to support OSF improvements and explore future collaboration opportunities with the Center for Open Science

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is providing a 2-year grant to support a research effort entitled Transparency of Trust in Open Scholarly Communication. COS will provide, support, and test annotations, icons, and other visual signals of trustworthiness in collaboration with the 21 preprint services hosted on OSF. Signals include badges for open practices, links or other verifications of identity, provenance, or certification such as disclosure of conflicts or notification of what moderation has occurred in evaluating posted preprints.

The National Science Foundation awarded subcontracts to COS via the University of California - Riverside for the International Situations Project ($16,667) and the iREDS project ($7,731)

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research through a variety of awards. In 2017, this includes: core operating ($4,605,601), the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology ($1,048,716), quantitative consulting and training services ($206,813), the Preregistration Challenge ($201,525), the OpenTrials project in collaboration with Open Knowledge ($89,690), and for collaboration on the Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation project ($56,655).

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded COS a cooperative agreement to serve as the Testing and Evaluation performer in the Next Generation of Social Science (NGS2) program. COS will use the Open Science Framework (OSF), its flagship web application, to assist other program researchers to collect, support, and share their data among collaborators and, as appropriate, with the broader research community. OSF will support researchers managing their experimental work flow, pre-registering their experimental design, and archiving their research data and outcomes.

The John Templeton Foundation awarded COS a grant to increase scientific openness and integrity and to dramatically expand the features and connectivity of the OSF.

The National Institute on Aging ($291,490) awarded COS a grant to focus on adoption of practices and incentives for the aging community, and the University of Virginia ($23,852) provided support to COS through a supplement grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to collaborate on reproducible practices training in the Biotechnology Training Program and to extend the Open Science Framework to include electronic lab notebook functionality.

The National Science Foundation awarded subcontracts via the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT ($107,575) and the LookIt ($65,820) project to collaborate on an open-source environment for running developmental studies online, subcontracts via the University of California - Riverside for the International Situations Project ($19,999) and the iREDS project ($3,274), and a subcontract via Arizona State University to collaborate on the development of a Digital Research Infrastructure for Arizona's 21st Century Research Enterprise ("LiveData" - $33,940).

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded COS a subcontract to partner with the Association of Research Libraries to build the SHARE notification system, which will use the OSF to provide notice that research is available to the public.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded COS with a grant through the James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative - Special Initiative to conduct evaluations of the Registered Reports publishing model.

The University of California - San Diego gave COS funds to begin development of creation, curation, and editing tools for SHARE, leading to an institutional dashboard view of content.

Retraction Watch provided support for COS to plan and develop an integration of Retraction Watch content with SHARE and to prototype a UI for a future Retraction Watch database.

Virginia Tech provided COS with funds to support the integration of the Fedora repository platform with the Open Science Framework.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded COS a subcontract to partner with the University of Notre Dame on creation of the Research Data and Software Preservation Quality Tool (PresQT).

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded COS a subcontract to partner with the Association of Research Libraries to build the SHARE notification system, which will use the OSF to provide notice that research is available to the public.

The John Templeton Foundation awarded COS a grant to increase scientific openness and integrity and to dramatically expand the features and connectivity of the OSF.

The National Institute on Aging awarded COS a grant to focus on adoption of practices and incentives for the aging community.

The National Science Foundation awarded subcontracts via the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the LookIt project to collaborate on an open-source environment for running developmental studies online, subcontracts via the University of California - Riverside for the International Situations Project and the iREDS project, and a subcontract via Whitman College for the Improving Inference in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology workshop.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded COS a cooperative agreement to serve as the Testing and Evaluation performer in the Next Generation of Social Science (NGS2) program. COS will use the Open Science Framework (OSF), its flagship web application, to assist other program researchers to collect, support, and share their data among collaborators and, as appropriate, with the broader research community. OSF will support researchers managing their experimental work flow, pre-registering their experimental design, and archiving their research data and outcomes.

The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences awarded COS a subcontract via the Stockholm School of Economics for "The Reproducibility of Social Science" project.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded COS a grant to support travel awards to the December 2016 Center for Open Science - Health Research Alliance Research Funder Forum.

The #barbarplots Campaign made an unrestricted donation to support COS initiatives.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

The John Templeton Foundation awarded COS a grant to increase scientific openness and integrity and to dramatically expand the features and connectivity of the OSF.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded COS a subcontract to partner with the Association of Research Libraries to build the SHARE notification system, which will use the OSF to provide notice that research is available to the public.

The National Institute on Aging awarded COS a grant to focus on adoption of practices and incentives for the aging community.

The National Science Foundation awarded subcontracts via the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the LookIt project to collaborate on an open-source environment for running developmental studies online, subcontracts via the University of California - Riverside for the International Situations Project and the iREDS project, and a subcontract via Whitman College for the Improving Inference in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology workshop.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded COS a grant for planning a strategy to support transparent and reproducible research practices in Africa.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

The John Templeton Foundation awarded COS a grant to increase scientific openness and integrity and to dramatically expand the features and connectivity of the OSF.

Donor support for an incubator project program.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded COS a grant to connect the OSF with tools created by other open source and open science service providers. The funds will support data management planning, pre-registration of research designs, data archiving, data analysis, and journal management.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded COS a subcontract to partner with the Association of Research Libraries to build the SHARE notification system, which will use the OSF to provide notice that research is available to the public.

Science Exchange gave funds to support the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology.

The Grimm-Huang Charitable Fund gave funds to support the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology.

The Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology gave funds to support student participation in the Collaborative Replication and Education Project.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation supports the Center for Open Science and its efforts to foster open, reliable, and rigorous scientific research.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded COS a grant to connect the OSF with tools created by other open source and open science service providers. The funds will support data management planning, pre-registration of research designs, data archiving, data analysis, and journal management.

Donor support for an incubator project program.