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
Branded Registries: Empowering communities to improve research rigor
September 24th, 2020
Our aim at COS is to change research culture by empowering communities of practice with the tools they need to improve scientific rigor in their fields. Now with our latest...
Tags: Preregistration, Registrations, OSF Registries
Crowdsourcing preprint reviews: PREreview and COS call for feedback on infrastructure integration
September 24th, 2020
COS is excited to collaborate with PREreview to increase the trust in preprints through peer review integration opportunities for authors who choose to upload their manuscripts to...
Tags: OSF Preprints, preprints, Peer Review, PREreview
Streamline your research workflow with OSF storage integrations
September 16th, 2020
OSF works to meet the researcher where they are by integrating the tools they know and trust into their research management workflow on OSF. One of those integrations is OSF...
Tags: OSF, Storage, Research Best Practices, Add-ons
250K OSF users: celebrating a global open science community
September 3rd, 2020
The research culture is shifting toward open science. Today we celebrate a milestone close to home: 250,000 registered users for OSF. The value proposition for open science is...
Tags: OSF
Introducing the Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
August 10th, 2020
COS is pleased to announce the new Open Scholarship Knowledge Base (OSKB), a free public repository of open practice learning resources and training materials to support...
Tags: Research Best Practices, Open Scholarship Knowledge Base, Education
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
Adapting the OU Undergraduate Research Day to COVID-19
July 14th, 2020
Photo courtesy of OU Honors College The Center for Open Science was pleased to support Oklahoma University (OU) in recent efforts to migrate its Undergraduate Research Day event...
Tags: OSF, Open Access, Oklahoma University, Accessibility, Undergraduate Research
5 ways to optimize your research workflow with OSF
June 1st, 2020
One of the tenets of open science is open collaboration — the quickening of knowledge exchange and feedback to accelerate discoveries with transparency, and with improved rigor....
Tags: Technology, OSF, Content Management, Collaboration
OSF Collections: What, Why, How
April 23rd, 2020
The COS team is excited to announce the launch ofOSF Collections, a place for journals, funders, societies, and research communities that need an archival or active repository...
Tags: research collection, Funders, Journals, discoverability, OSF Collections, Societies, reusability

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