Journals test the Materials Design Analysis Reporting (MDAR) checklist
October 22nd, 2019
This update is being shared on the work of the Minimum Standards Working Group through coordinated posts on member platforms. If you would like more information about the work...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing
OSF as a tool for managing course-embedded research projects
October 10th, 2019
Starting out as a first year professor, teaching was a new and exciting endeavour but I lacked experience in the development of curriculum, knowing what students needed to know,...
Tags: biochemistry, JMU, CURE
Announcing a joint effort to improve research transparency: FAIRSharing and TOP Guidelines
September 13th, 2019
FAIRsharing and the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) are two community efforts that aim to increase the number of journal and research funder policies that...
Tags: Collaboration, TOP Guidelines, FAIRsharing
Advocating for Policy Improvements at Your Institution
August 30th, 2019
Perhaps you’re in a scientific field that needs nurtured toward open and reproducible practices but you’re not sure how to approach policy and decision makers about implementing...
Tags: publishing, Transparency, TOP, Webinars, Registered Reports
COS Collaborates with Case Medical Research to Support Free Video Publishing for Clinicians and Researchers
August 7th, 2019
Video as research material is growing in appeal within the life sciences community as more researchers and clinicians seek ways to make their findings open and accessible.Imagine...
Tags: Research Best Practices, Clinicians, Life Sciences, Open Access, Case Medical Research
Seven Reasons to Work Reproducibly
August 6th, 2019
The following is a guest post from Dalson Figueiredo and Nicole Janz who helped to co-author Seven Reasons Why: A User's Guide to Transparency and Reproducibility, the first...
Tags: Reproducibility, open science initiatives, Brazil, transparent workflow
How to Build an Open Science Network in Your Community
August 5th, 2019
If you’re familiar with the open science movement, you may have also experienced the reality that the implementation of open practices hasn't been driven by a wide-scale adoption...
Tags: Community, Culture Change, Webinars, Grassroots Networks
How to Collaborate with Industry Using Open Science
July 12th, 2019
Authors: Samuel Robson, Brooklyn Corbett, Duncan McCarthy, Gianni Ribeiro, Rachel Searston, Jason Tangen, Matthew Thompson After several years working on fundamental cancer...
Tags: Collaboration, Open Science, Industry
Registered Reports and PhD’s – What? Why? How? An Interview with Chris Chambers
June 18th, 2019
This interview was originally published in December 2018 of PsyPag Quarterly, Issue 109, and was reposted with permission from PsyPAG, which is supported by the British...
Tags: publishing, Preregistration, Registrations, RR
New OSF Registries Enhancements Improve Efficiency and Quality of Registrations
June 12th, 2019
We’re excited to announce new user improvements to OSF Registries, a scholarly repository designed to facilitate transparency and rigor in research. With OSF Registries, you can...
Tags: Technology, Registrations, OSF Registries

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