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
OSF Research Lifecycle
OSF on Track to Reach Half a Million Users by Midyear 2022
April 7th, 2022
The growth in the open science research community shows no signs of slowing down. Nowhere is that more evident than in the number of users of the Open Science Framework (OSF), an...
Tags: Openscience, OSF, open science initiatives
Consciousness Research
New Grant in Consciousness Research with $1.125M to be Awarded to Consciousness Researchers who use the Registered Reports Model
April 5th, 2022
In collaboration with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and with funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), we are very excited to...
Tags: open science initiatives, Registered Reports, Webinar, Consciousness
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
How OSF Registries are Advancing Childhood Neurocognitive Development Research
March 29th, 2022
As any teacher – or even any parent with more than one child knows – social development in children occurs at different rates and manifests in an enormous variety of personality...
Tags: Science, OSF, OSF Registries, open science initiatives, Open Source
Improvements to TOP Factor
February 28th, 2022
An enhanced TOP Factor journal interface has been released, which provides a more interactive view of journal ratings, increases transparency of the scoring process, and provides...
Tags: Transparency, TOP, TOP Guidelines, Industry
OSF reached a pinnacle of 400,000 registered users
December 14th, 2021
The Open Science Framework (OSF), an open-source research collaboration and management platform by the Center for Open Science (COS), just achieved 400,000 worldwide registered...
Tags: Openness, OSF, Open Science, Culture Change
Dr. Derek Isaacowitz answers some questions about the importance of open science in aging research, how to implement open science practices, and next steps for the field.
Open Science in Aging Research: an Interview with Dr. Derek Isaacowitz
December 3rd, 2021
Does open science apply to my field? It’s a contentious question that will garner a range of responses. If you are a researcher studying aging, however, there is one scientist who...
Tags: Open Science, Culture Change, aging research, oskb
Leveraging the OSF for large-scale collaboration
November 8th, 2021
There is substantial interest in the extent to which published findings in socio-behavioral sciences (SBS) are reproducible. While large-scale replication projects in psychology...

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