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“My wife and I have been supporting COS for a number of years because of the resources COS provides to the research community to engage in open science.”
Patrick Shrout
COS donors

People reach the Center for Open Science from many different directions. For some, COS provides the tools and training services they use to make their research more accessible, transparent, and reusable. For others, we are a community of researchers and institutions working to reshape the norms and policies of science and scholarship. Still others partner with us on new ideas and approaches to how research is conducted, evaluated, and shared.

What unites all of our research collaborators, OSF users, and supporters is the belief that research is most powerful when it is open, verifiable, and trustworthy. Like you, we know that making research more transparent and accessible strengthens the foundations of discovery, accelerates the advancement of knowledge, and helps ensure that research can better serve society.

This year, we invite you to reflect on what COS means to you—and to help make our shared vision a reality. Your support helps build a future where openness is the foundation of scientific progress.

“Happy to continue to support this excellent organization that has done so much to increase the integrity of science.”

Pamela Davis-Kean
COS donor

Why Donate to COS?

COS works every day to strengthen the norms and values that undergird open research. Our community engagement efforts and collaborations with science funders, publishers, and policymakers continue to shift the culture of research toward more openness.

Contributions from supporters also mean we can offer technical solutions and training programs for open science free of charge. Thousands of researchers around the world use OSF every day to register their research studies and connect different components for ease of discovery and reuse.

“We run clinical trials and generate large, complex datasets, and we write papers with all of that data. I help write statistical analysis plans and study protocols, and we post many of those materials on OSF. I often use OSF for registering statistical analysis plans, especially when I’m doing secondary data analyses. For systematic reviews, I’ll also write a protocol and register it on OSF before the project begins.”

Alisha Bruton, Research Scientist and Biostatistician
Oregon Health & Science University (USA)
“Transparency and reproducibility were important considerations throughout [our] project. We wanted to clearly document our hypotheses, methods, and analysis plans before examining the data, and OSF provided a straightforward platform to do that. Making our materials publicly available also helps other researchers understand exactly how the study was conducted and potentially build on our work.”

Jolana Samii, PhD researcher
University of Bristol (United Kingdom)

Help us support more researchers with tools and services to make their research easier to discover, evaluate, and reuse. Make your donation today!

“Love COS. Thanks for everything you do.”
Ashok Varma
COS donor

Help us support more researchers with tools and services to make their research easier to discover, evaluate, and reuse. Make your donation today!

Thank you for your interest in donating to COS! Your support is essential in advancing the open scholarship movement and helping us maintain and develop our Open Science Framework (OSF). With every donation, you help to accelerate innovation in open and transparent research practices.

 

COS is a public charity as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN #46-1496217. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Help us make scholarship open and make a donation today. If you have questions or would like to support COS using assets or mechanisms outside those mentioned above, please contact the COS Development Team via email at giving@cos.io or call (434) 207-2133.

 

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