Tools

Making open and rigorous research possible and easy.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

Research lifecycle with OSF

Products Powered by OSF

Do you work in an institutional library and need tools or infrastructure to support open science practices? Do you need to help researchers in your organization share research outputs?

OSF Institutions provides researchers, librarians, support staff, and administrators tools and insights on OSF to accelerate open science practices. OSF Institutions can help research administrators meet policy requirements, librarians track research outputs and activity, and improve researcher workflow efficiency with integrated tools.

Do you help coordinate research? Do you need to highlight best practices and encourage open and transparent research within your community?

OSF Collections is a repository of submitted OSF projects built for sharing, searching, aggregating and promoting a body of research works. Collections enable research communities to set norms and advance open research practices collectively.

Is improving research quality and rigor and encouraging research transparency part of your role? Do you need to track study outputs and enforce policy compliance?

OSF Registries are scholarly repositories built for archiving, sharing, searching, and aggregating research plans, designs, data, and outcomes. Community-developed and custom templates on OSF Registries ensure that registrations are fit-for-purpose to increase research rigor and accelerate adoption of preregistration, data and sharing management plans, and other research planning behaviors.

Is sharing open scholarship for your discipline, community, institution, geographic area your focus? Do you need to provide a solution for meeting open-access publication requirements?

OSF Preprints are repositories for sharing research papers, results, summaries, and other reports. Communities and organizations can launch a branded preprint service on OSF Preprints to freely share and discover working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, articles under review, postprints, and open access papers.

Pricing Overview

	Institutions	Collections	Preprints	Registries	OSF User
Basic Membership	$5000	$5000	See pricing	$5000	Free
Dedicated Project Manager	Included	Included	N/A	Included	N/A
SSO	Included	Not included	Not included	Not included	ORCiD
Public Branded OSF Page	Included	Included	Included	Included	N/A
OSF Community Resources	Included	Included	Included	Included	Not included
Training Workshops	Can be added	Can be added	Can be added	Can be added	Can be added
Included Interfaces	Discovery, Private Insights Dashboard	Submission + custom metadata		Submission + registration overview
Custom Templates				$2000-4000
Template Update				$1000
Storage	Per object /node cap - 10 GB for private, 100 GB for public Negotiable for larger caps	Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public	5 GB document size limit	Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public	Per object /node cap - 5 GB for private, 50 GB for public
Custom Domain	$250	$250		$250
Bulk Upload				$2000
Outcome reporting	In progress	In progress		In progress
Logic forms functionality	In progress	In progress		In progress
Integration Maintenance

Tools

Making open and rigorous research possible and easy.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

Products Powered by OSF

Do you work in an institutional library and need tools or infrastructure to support open science practices? Do you need to help researchers in your organization share research outputs?

Do you help coordinate research? Do you need to highlight best practices and encourage open and transparent research within your community?

Is improving research quality and rigor and encouraging research transparency part of your role? Do you need to track study outputs and enforce policy compliance?

Is sharing open scholarship for your discipline, community, institution, geographic area your focus? Do you need to provide a solution for meeting open-access publication requirements?

Pricing Overview

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Explore our Product Roadmap to discover the latest features, upcoming improvements, and how we're shaping the future of open science.

Tools

Making open and rigorous research possible and easy.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

OSF is a free, open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle - from planning, to conducting, to reporting, and discovering research.

What is the Open Science Framework (OSF)?

Products Powered by OSF

Do you work in an institutional library and need tools or infrastructure to support open science practices? Do you need to help researchers in your organization share research outputs?

Do you help coordinate research? Do you need to highlight best practices and encourage open and transparent research within your community?

Is improving research quality and rigor and encouraging research transparency part of your role? Do you need to track study outputs and enforce policy compliance?

Is sharing open scholarship for your discipline, community, institution, geographic area your focus? Do you need to provide a solution for meeting open-access publication requirements?

Pricing Overview

See What's Coming Next

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Explore our Product Roadmap to discover the latest features, upcoming improvements, and how we're shaping the future of open science.