COS hosts FUSF preprint server FocUS Archive, providing a nexus for information sharing in the focused ultrasound community
November 4th, 2021
In 2016, the Focused Ultrasound Foundation funded a clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a focused ultrasound treatment for Essential Tremor (ET) which yielded...
Transform and support the research lifecycle with transparency
Preregistration: A Plan for Communities, Not a Prison for Researchers
October 20th, 2021
Preregistration is the process of specifying key study and analysis details and decisions before conducting the experiment. The main goal of preregistering one’s research is to...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Community, Culture Change, OSF Registries
Connecting the Science of Science: Metascience Conference 2021
October 13th, 2021
The Metascience 2021 Conference was a global virtual gathering to connect the study of science across disciplines, methodologies, and regions, and was an initiative of the Center...
Preregistering secondary data analyses? Yes, you can!
July 2nd, 2021
Click here to preview the secondary data preregistration template on OSF. Authors: Olmo van den Akker, Tilburg University; Marjan Bakker, Tilburg University Outside of science,...
Take the Preregistration Pledge with Project Free Our Knowledge
June 14th, 2021
COS is collaborating with Project Free Our Knowledge (FOK) to support ECRs and others advancing open behaviors in their fields, and is pleased to partner with FOK’s...
Tags: Preregistration, Open Science, Culture Change, Academia
New OSF enhancements for community-developed, open source infrastructure
June 8th, 2021
Not only do researchers use OSF as a tool to accelerate science by collaborating, managing and sharing their research; they’re also stakeholders in its sustainable development...
Tags: Transparency, Infrastructure, Software, OSF, Sustainability, Integrations, Open Source
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 MDAR Framework – a new tool for life sciences reporting
April 26th, 2021
(Materials, Design, Analysis, Reporting) Incomplete or imprecise reporting of life sciences research contributes to challenges with reproducibility, replicability, and biomedical...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing
Improving research rigor just got quicker
March 31st, 2021
This week OSF added a new workflow to start a registration without needing an existing OSF project, making the registration process quick and easy to get started. The new...
Tags: Preregistration, OSF, OSF Registries, Registration
Data from 25+ of MDRC’s Postsecondary RCTs Available via ICPSR
March 22nd, 2021
The mission of the Center for Open Science is to “increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research.” We want in. In 2001, MDRC launched the first ever large scale...
Tags: Data, Open Science, Education, RCT, open data, postsecondary, experiment

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