Help us to improve health research
March 21st, 2021
Thanks to pioneers like David Sackett, Kay Dickerson and Doug Altman, Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has brought immense improvements in medical and health research. The hard work...
Tags: Transparency, Registered Reports, Health Research, Policy
protocols.io and OSF integrate to enable collaboration, reproducibility
February 18th, 2021
Since the protocols.io mission is to accelerate science, we have to make sure that we support our researchers as much as possible, recognizing their different workflows....
Tags: Collaboration, protocols.io, Integrations, Interoperability, Protocols
OSF as a platform for FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute 2020 virtual courses
February 17th, 2021
As a flexible collaboration and management tool, the OSF supports a plethora of use cases and workflow needs — most recently accommodating the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications...
Tags: OSF, Preservation, Instruction
OSF 2020 Community Milestones, and Looking Ahead
December 16th, 2020
In 2020, OSF users collectively created over 20,000 new registrations, made nearly 2 million files publicly available, and shared more than 24,000 preprints. Research consumers...
Qualitative Preregistration
December 10th, 2020
Against the backdrop of an alleged reproducibility crisis and awareness of researcher misbehavior, the practice of preregistration is enjoying increasing popularity — especially...
Tags: Preregistration, Qualitative Preregistration
Improving the quality and specificity of preregistration
December 9th, 2020
Dr. Marjan Bakker, Tilburg University — Preregistration, which is specifying a research plan in advance of the study, is seen as one of the most important ways to improve the...
Tags: Preregistration, Registrations
You can help open science become the norm.
November 19th, 2020
Our collective vision to change the research culture is becoming a reality. For example, you may be noticing that: Funders are rethinking their policies to promote greater...
A Year of Open Science
November 16th, 2020
"Show me" not "trust me": Science doesn't ask for trust, it earns trust with transparency. The credibility of science has center stage in 2020. A raging pandemic. Partisan...
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...
Atención! OSF Help Resources Now Available in Spanish
October 23rd, 2020
Science will not meet its potential until the research culture enables and supports contributors from all backgrounds and circumstances and contributions of all kinds based on the...

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