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Assessing Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research: Opportunities for Adoption
July 19th, 2023
Open scholarship practices, which involve sharing data, materials, preregistering studies, replication, sharing preprints, and reporting null results, have gained significant...
Tags: Research, Open Science, Education
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Watch Sessions from Metascience 2023
June 9th, 2023
The Metascience 2023 Conference, held May 9-10, 2023, at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC, brought together a diverse community of researchers,...
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Improving the Research Culture: COS Celebrates 10 Years
May 25th, 2023
The Center for Open Science (COS) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday, May 8, 2023 at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC. This event featured a...
Tags: Open Science, Culture Change
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Guest Post — Registered Reports Community Feedback: Monitoring Peer Review
May 3rd, 2023
Registered Reports are an innovative alternative to traditional scientific publishing. In this format, study proposals are peer reviewed before research has been conducted, and...
Tags: Open Science, Registered Reports
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Supporting Research on Research
April 28th, 2023
Metascience 2023, the third iteration of the event partnership between the Center for Open Science (COS), RoRI, and AIMOS, serves as a global gathering for knowledge sharing,...
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2022 Impact Report: Catalyst for Change
April 26th, 2023
Over the past decade, the Center for Open Science (COS) has been committed to reforming how scientific research is conducted, incentivized, and evaluated by elevating and enabling...
Tags: Open Science
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Generalized Systematic Review Template Joins OSF Registries
April 20th, 2023
Researchers, no matter their discipline or study design, can use OSF to (pre)register their research. Registration refers to archiving one’s study design and outputs (e.g., data...
Tags: Preregistration, Open Science, OSF Registries, Registration
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Call for Volunteers: TOP Guidelines Advisory Board and Preregistration Template Evaluation Working Group
April 19th, 2023
Are you passionate about promoting transparency and openness in scientific research? The Center for Open Science (COS) is currently seeking volunteers for two opportunities. We...
Tags: Preregistration, TOP Guidelines, Open Science, Volunteers
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Watch Sessions from the 2023 Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices for Education Research
April 14th, 2023
We’re proud of this year’s Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices for Education Research (UOSPER), which brought together over 400 registrants from 53 countries to discuss...
Tags: Open Science, Education, Unconference
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OSF Adds New Metadata Features to Meet Desirable Characteristics for Federally Funded Research
April 13th, 2023
Last year we did a self-assessment of the OSF as part of the NIH’s Generalist Repositories Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), based on the desirable characteristics for data...
Tags: OSF, Open Science, Metadata

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