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Watch the 2022 Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices for Education Research
April 14th, 2022
We’re proud of this year’s Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices for Education Research (UOSPER), which brought together more than 450 members of the education research...
Tags: Research, OSF, Community, Education, Unconference
Character Lab Partners with COS to Promote Science-based Ways to build Good Character Traits in Children
April 12th, 2022
There is an abundance of scientific evidence showing that positive character traits like self-control, curiosity, and gratitude don’t just make good citizens – they make happier...
Tags: Open Science, Open Access, open data, Open Source
Watch COS Webinar: A Guide to Supporting Early Career Researchers in Open Science
April 11th, 2022
Supporting early career researchers in their open science journey is critical for the future of the field. The development of open science behaviors, however, often requires...
Tags: Preregistration, Research, OSF, Community, Registered Reports, Academia, Webinar
Watch the Updating Registration Webinar
April 4th, 2022
Open Science aims to make scientific processes more transparent and the results more accessible to the research community. Preregistration is one of the available open science...
Tags: OSF, Community, Academia
Interview: Dr. Daniel Simons, editor of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) on how to “get started” with open science practices
June 7th, 2021
The journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) publishes academic articles on scientific research methods across the psychological sciences. AMPPS...
Tags: Preregistration, TOP, Journals, TOP Factor
The Open Research Lifecycle
October 23rd, 2020
Society invests billions of dollars in research each year, and too much of that investment goes to waste. Researchers are rewarded for sensational findings rather than rigorous...
Shared Investment in OSF Sustainability
September 29th, 2020
We launched the Open Science Framework (OSF) in 2012 as infrastructure to support our mission to change the research culture toward openness, integrity, and reproducibility. With...
Tags: OSF, Storage, Add-ons, Sustainability
IAFNS's growing OSF Collection aggregates supported research
August 4th, 2020
The collection improves visibility of the scope and rigor of nutrition science and food safety studies conducted by investigators funded by the Institute for the Advancement of...
Tags: OSF Collections, IAFNS
Open science is more important than ever
April 17th, 2020
Like many of you, the COS team has been working from home since mid-March: managing collaborative work, daily scrums, and technical projects via videoconference while wrangling...
Re-engineering Ethics Training: An Interview with Dena Plemmons and Erica Baranski
January 21st, 2020
The Institutional Re-engineering of Ethical Discourse in STEM (iREDS) curriculum is a new research ethics training that facilitates interpersonal communications among lab...
Tags: Research Best Practices

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