Continued Growth in OSF Usage: Catalyzing Change in Open Practices
May 9th, 2022
Since COS was founded in 2013, we have had non-linear growth on our key performance indicators. For example, the average number of new Open Science Framework (OSF) users per day...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science
Encouraging Open Science Practices in Influenza Research
May 3rd, 2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), global influenza epidemics are estimated to result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and upwards of 650,000...
Tags: Replication, Research, Community, Open Science
Educating in the Open Scholarship Era: Integrating Open and Reproducible Science Principles into Higher Education
May 2nd, 2022
Prominent failures to replicate scientific results (e.g., Open Science Collaboration, 2015) and the publication of extremely implausible findings (e.g., Bem, 2011) sparked in the...
Tags: Community, Open Science, Education
Open Science Badges Are Going Viral
April 28th, 2022
We are flattered and humbled. But mostly, we’re just grateful. To encourage authors to provide open access to their data, our friends at the Public Library of Science (PLOS) has...
Tags: Research, OSF, Community, Open Science, Badges
Continuing the Acceleration: COS’s New Strategic Plan
April 26th, 2022
This strategic plan is the culmination of a year-long review process that engaged many internal and external stakeholders to shape Center for Open Science’s (COS) priorities for...
Tags: Strategy, OSF, Community, Open Science, Culture Change, Policy
Our 2021 Impact Report: Accelerating Open Science Together
April 25th, 2022
We are pleased to share our 2021 Impact Report, “Accelerating Open Science Together.” Amid continuing global challenges due to the pandemic, 2021 was another noteworthy year not...
Tags: Collaboration, Community, Open Science
Open Science at the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
April 21st, 2022
Open science practices are growing among education researchers. These behaviors seek to better align research behaviors with the research values of openness, transparency, rigor,...
Tags: Research, Community, Open Science, Open Scholarship Knowledge Base, Education
COS Partnership Provides Early Peer Review to Improve Study of the Effectiveness of a Mobile App for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
April 20th, 2022
Elise Cardinale, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland, leads a team that is aiming to integrate neuroscience and mobile technology...
Tags: Preregistration, Research, OSF, Community, Open Science
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That's So Meta: COS Metascientist Meets with Meta-community
April 15th, 2022
Have you ever heard the phrase, “That’s so meta!” and wondered what it meant? In a nutshell, it refers to ideas or moments that are self-referential and circular in nature. It’s...
Tags: Research, OSF, Community, Transparency & Reproducibility, metascience
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

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