COS Mission and Strategy Evolution
When we opened the Center for Open Science (COS) 13 years ago, science was steady and the open science movement was tenuous. Today, it feels like the opposite in some regions. ...
Tags: Strategy, OSF, Lifecycle Open Science
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana Samii
Research doesn't begin with a published paper—it starts with a question, a plan, and a process that sometimes remains invisible to others. At the Center for Open Science (COS), we...
Tags: Transparency, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Data Sharing, Lifecycle Open Science
Introducing the Eye Tracking Preregistration Template: Q&A with Libby Jenke and Nicolette Sullivan
Eye tracking is used across a broad range of disciplines—from psychology and neuroscience to marketing, political science, and communication—to capture real-time measures of...
Tags: Preregistration, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility
Toward Collaborative Reproducible Manuscripts
Why reproducible manuscripts?In theory, reproducibility improves accountability to third party reviewers, allows researchers to more easily build on existing work, and can improve...
Tags: Transparency, Reproducibility, Research, Collaboration, SCORE, Replicability
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Cordova
At the Center for Open Science (COS), we use the term lifecycle open science (LOS) to describe research with publicly accessible plans, outputs—such as data, materials, and...
Tags: Transparency, OSF, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Data Sharing, Lifecycle Open Science
What OMB’s Proposed Grantmaking Revisions Could Mean for Research Integrity
The Center for Open Science (COS) has submitted a public comment opposing several proposed revisions detailed in the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) proposed...
Tags: Policy, Policy Advocacy, Research Integrity
Benchmarking LLM Agents on Scientific Tasks: Introducing ReplicatorBench
Last fall, COS announced a new initiative to systematically evaluate how well large language model (LLM) agents can perform and reason through the scientific research lifecycle. ...
Tags: Replication, Collaboration, Replicability, AI
Announcing a New Resource for Journals and Publishers: Journal Implementation Guidance for TOP 2025
Recent work led by the Center for Open Science (COS) found that papers published in journals with strong data and code sharing policies were more readily reproducible. COS has...
Tags: TOP Guidelines, Policy, TOP 2025
Introducing the COS Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series
The Center for Open Science (COS) is introducing the Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series, a collection of seven self-paced online courses developed by COS in response...
Tags: Open Science, Training
Enhancing Discoverability: Recent Updates to the OSF
Lifecycle Open Science (LOS) is an approach to research that promotes transparency, openness, and accessibility across the entire research lifecycle—from planning and data...
Tags: OSF, discoverability, Metadata, Lifecycle Open Science