Open Source Ecosystem Spotlight: GakuNin RDM
Open Source Ecosystem Project Spotlight: GakuNin RDM
September 15th, 2025
GakuNin RDM is a research data management (RDM) service provided by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and designed to promote open science across universities and...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science, Open Source, Inclusivity and Collaboration, Open Source Ecosystem
Open Source Ecosystem Project Spotlight: Exporting OSF Projects to PDF
Open Source Ecosystem Project Spotlight: Exporting OSF Projects to PDF
September 15th, 2025
What if you could generate a detailed PDF snapshot of your entire OSF project—including metadata, wikis, files, contributors, components, and logs? A new project led by Ramiro...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science, Open Source, Inclusivity and Collaboration, Open Source Ecosystem
Open Source Ecosystem Spotlight: ACORN
Open Source Ecosystem Project Spotlight: Accessible Content Optimization for Research Needs (ACORN)
September 15th, 2025
Researchers generate vast amounts of data, but making that information easy to find, understand, and use is still a challenge. Accessible Content Optimization for Research Needs...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science, Open Source, Inclusivity and Collaboration, Open Source Ecosystem
Open Source Ecosystem Spotlight: DataPipe
Open Source Ecosystem Project Spotlight: DataPipe
September 15th, 2025
DataPipe is a tool that enables researchers to save data from a behavioral experiment directly to the Open Science Framework (OSF). Developed by Joshua R. de Leeuw, Associate...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science, Open Source, Inclusivity and Collaboration, Open Source Ecosystem
Center for Open Science and African Reproducibility Network Partner to Advance Open Scholarship Practices in Local Contexts
September 10th, 2025
The Center for Open Science (COS) and the African Reproducibility Network (AREN) have announced a partnership to jointly advance broadening participation in open scholarship...
Tags: Reproducibility, Research, Collaboration, discoverability
Suspension of Submissions to Generalist Preprint Server for Review and Next Steps — Community Servers Hosted by OSF Preprints Remain Active
August 21st, 2025
Effective August 25, 2025, the Center for Open Science (COS) will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server hosted on OSF Preprints. The generalist server has operated...
Tags: OSF Preprints, preprints, Infrastructure, OSF, Open Science
Q&A with Benjamin Korman: Sharing Research on Participatory Digital Media in Japanese Museums
August 18th, 2025
When Benjamin Korman began his graduate research at Tokyo University of the Arts, he set out to explore how museums in Japan integrate digital media—even though he’d initially...
Tags: Transparency, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Education
"We Are Metascience": Conference Partners Enable a Momentous Metascience 2025
August 11th, 2025
The global metaresearch community marked a significant milestone last month with Metascience 2025, the fourth event in the Metascience biennial conference series presented by the ...
Tags: Community, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, metascience, Metascience Alliance, metaresearch, Metascience2025
Introducing the Simulation Studies Preregistration Template: Q&A with Björn S. Siepe, František Bartoš, and Samuel Pawel
July 29th, 2025
In 2023, COS launched a Preregistration Template Evaluation Working Group to help curate, evaluate, and promote high-quality preregistration templates that reflect the needs of...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Simulation Studies
A Shared Challenge: Evaluating AI’s Impact on Open Research Infrastructure
July 25th, 2025
At a time when transparency and trust in research are more important than ever, the Open Science Framework (OSF) enables researchers to share the plans, data, materials, code,...
Tags: Transparency, Infrastructure, OSF, Open Science, AI

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