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Metascience 2023: Exploring the Methods and Practices of Scientific Research
March 23rd, 2023
Many scholarly fields conduct descriptive research about the research process. Advocates and reformers have prescriptive ideas about how the research process might be improved....
Tags: Reproducibility, Research, Open Science, metascience, Metascience2023
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Guest Post — If You Want to Go Far, Go Together: Collaborating on Data Sharing Guidance
March 21st, 2023
By Lucy Carr Jones, Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia & Lena Bohman, Data Management and Research...
Tags: Data, Open Science, Data Sharing
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NIH Wants to Hear From You on Advancing the Promise of Open Science
February 23rd, 2023
Great news on advancing open science. NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) became effective January 25, 2023 and requires “NIH-supported researchers to...
Tags: Open Science, Culture Change, Policy
Watch the Data Sharing for Qualitative Research Webinar
February 3rd, 2023
Researchers in the U.S. and elsewhere are increasingly expected to have data management and sharing plans. Recently, the White House Office of Science Technology & Policy (OSTP) ...
Tags: Research, Open Science, Webinar
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New OSF Metadata to Support Data Sharing Policy Compliance
January 31st, 2023
One of the most important features of OSF is something you may not even be aware of, yet you use it all the time: Metadata. All OSF Projects, Registrations, and Preprints come...
Tags: OSF, Open Science, Metadata
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2023 is the Year of Open Science
January 13th, 2023
Under the leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), all major U.S. federal agencies are participating in declaring 2023 the “Federal Year of...
Tags: Open Science, NASA, TOPS, OSTP, Year of Open Science
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Confidence at Scale: Using Technology to Assess Research Credibility
December 22nd, 2022
After multiple years of data collection, the Research team at the Center for Open Science (COS) is preparing for the end of its participation in DARPA’s Systematizing Confidence...
Tags: Reproducibility, Research, Open Science, SCORE
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TOP Factor at 2,000 Journals: A Growing Resource for the Scientific Community
December 19th, 2022
Launched in January 2020, TOP Factor has grown to include evaluations of over 2,000 journal policies. TOP Factor evaluates journal policies for their alignment with the standards...
Tags: TOP Guidelines, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, TOP Factor
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The Fellowship Factor: Cultivating Community in Influenza Research and Beyond
December 16th, 2022
What does it mean to grow open science practices, norms, and values among a particular research community? How do the researchers themselves hope to benefit from this type of...
Tags: Reproducibility, Community, Open Science
Guest Post — Open Research Across Geographies
December 8th, 2022
Researchers from around the world use the Open Science Framework (OSF) every day to support their research workflows and practice openness and transparency in their research. As...
Tags: Collaboration, Open Science

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