A Preregistration Coaching Network
November 2nd, 2017
In early 2016, COS launched the $1,000,000 Preregistration Challenge. This Challenge is an on-going education campaign designed to encourage researchers to preregister their...
Tags: Preregistration, Openscience, Ambassador, Network
10 Tips for Making a Great Preregistration
October 10th, 2017
[UPDATED] Preregistration is the first line of defense we can use to protect ourselves from biases and questionable research practices. Preregistration does require some...
Tags: Preregistration
Community-Driven Science: An Interview With EarthArXiv Founders Chris Jackson, Tom Narock and Bruce Caron
August 24th, 2017
EarthArxiv has been a great example of an open, community-led initiative that isn't controlled by any one entity. It's been fast, and exciting, but ultimately the dispersed nature...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Content Management, Collaboration
OSF Add-ons Help You Maximize Research Data Storage and Accessibility
August 11th, 2017
This week’s release of the Bitbucket add-on to the Open Science Framework (osf.io) provides OSF users with a way to cite, browse, and register their code on Atlassian’s Bitbucket...
Tags: Repository, Data, Storage
How Open Source Research Tools Can Help Institutions Keep it Simple
August 2nd, 2017
One challenge familiar to anyone working in a research institution is how to manage the myriad projects, licensing, and publishing challenges that support producing vast amounts...
Tags: Research, Repository, Software, Lifecycle
Some Cool New OSF Features
July 31st, 2017
We have just added some cool new features to the OSF that we think are worth mentioning! Google Scholar Indexing We worked with Google Scholar to identify and optimize the...
Tags: Technology, preprints, OSF, Google
We Should Redefine Statistical Significance
July 23rd, 2017
Researchers representing a wide range of disciplines and statistical perspectives—72 of us in total—have posted a new paper on PsyArXiv describing a place of common ground. We...
Tags: Research, Statistics, P-Values
Are reproducibility and open science starting to matter in tenure and promotion review?
July 14th, 2017
Tenure and promotion season is underway. Promotion committees, in the U.S. at least, use the summer to send portfolios to 3 to 10 scholars at other institutions for independent...
Tags: Reproducibility, Openscience
Some Examples of Publishing the Research That Actually Happened
July 3rd, 2017
A discussion about a grad student’s dilemma on The Black Goat “It’s So Complicated” podcast caught my attention last week (June 28, 2017). The student wrote about a situation in...
Tags: Replication, publishing, Reproducibility, Research
Replicating a challenging study: it's all about sharing the details.
June 27th, 2017
Working on the replication attempt of The common feature of leukemia-associated IDH1 and IDH2 mutations is a neomorphic enzyme activity converting alpha-ketoglutarate to...
Tags: Replication, Reproducibility, Research, Repository, Cancer

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