OSF Fedora Integration, Aussie style!
June 26th, 2017
The Center for Open Science, DuraSpace, Johns Hopkins University (through the Data Conservancy), and University of Notre Dame have partnered to address several challenges of data...
Tags: Integration, Software, Design, OSF, Fedora
Preregistration: A Plan, Not a Prison
May 23rd, 2017
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: Preregistration
The Center for Open Science is a Culture Change Technology Company
May 19th, 2017
Last night, the Center for Open Science received the “Startup of the Year” award at the CBIC awards gala, an annual showcase of technology innovation in our home town of...
Tags: Technology, Research, Culture
How can we improve diversity and inclusion in the open science movement?
May 5th, 2017
Two items this past week point to challenges for diversity and inclusion in open science. First, a WIRED story reported evidence that gender diversity in open source software is...
Tags: Openscience
Three More Reasons to Take the Preregistration Challenge
May 5th, 2017
Faster reviews, more journals, and encouragement from funders. As you may already know, the Preregistration Challenge is our ongoing education campaign to encourage...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Reproducibility
Building a Central Service for Preprints
April 30th, 2017
Preprints are hot. The week before last, we described our status and plans for providing open infrastructure to support the growing preprint ecosystem. Last week, we learned that...
A How-To Guide to Improving the Clarity and Continuity of Your Preregistration
April 26th, 2017
Preregistration, specifying your study design and analysis plan before you begin your study, has recently come to the forefront of scientific discussion as one solution to the...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Reproducibility
Public Goods Infrastructure for Preprints and Innovation in Scholarly Communication
April 19th, 2017
Judy Luther offered an insightful birds-eye view of the burgeoning preprints landscape at Scholarly Kitchen yesterday. As she mentioned, the Center for Open Science is...
Tags: publishing, preprints, Research, Infrastructure
Next Steps for Promoting Transparency in Science
April 7th, 2017
Springer Nature just added over 2,100 of their journals as signatories to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, published in Science in 2015. Let that sink in....
Tags: publishing, Transparency, TOP
Interview with Prereg Challenge Award Winner Dr. Allison Skinner
March 27th, 2017
Dr. Allison Skinner is a postdoctoral research associate in the Social Cognitive Development lab and the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington....
Tags: Preregistration, Research, Challenge

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