Whether you’re a community-led open science initiative or discipline-based society, OSF Collections can support your efforts to aggregate the rigorous and transparent outcomes of your research area.
OSF Collections brings together the open data, materials, and code of your community members and offers further metadata and filtering tools to improve the discovery of their research by discipline, project type, program area, and more.
Provide your members with a public, centralized space to share and host their data and materials. The easy OSF Collections submission interface allows contributors to quickly add research to your collection and choose the appropriate metadata for quick categorization and better visibility.
After submission, projects receive an affiliate indicator showing their link to your collection to promote further discovery.
Establish new norms within your research community through engagement and support of high quality research. First, incorporate OSF — a community-run, open source tool — into your researchers' workflow.
Then, use OSF Collections to demonstrate the value of rigorous and reproducible research by connecting the underlying work to the reported findings, increasing trust and signaling integrity. Engage your community of practice to curate robust bodies of knowledge, and improve the visibility of research for those who may be searching for it.
Showing your commitment to open science incentivizes rigorous and transparent research practices. By creating an OSF Collection, you cultivate greater opportunity for open collaboration, knowledge exchange, and innovation.
A collection also encourages the use of OSF as an engine to drive your community forward, meet open policies, and catalyze a change in research culture toward rigor and reproducibility.
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