At the Center for Open Science, we believe an open exchange of ideas accelerates scientific progress toward solving our most persistent problems.
We envision a future scholarly community in which the process, content, and outcomes of research are openly accessible by default.
We maintain the Open Science Framework (OSF) to help researchers conduct research more rigorously, and manage and share their work more openly.
From individuals to institutions, we educate, train, and support research communities and their affiliates toward greater adoption of open and reproducible practices.
We conduct research on research practices to understand areas of inefficiency, and to evaluate interventions to improve.
Making your work openly visible to other researchers invites collaboration, allows others to discover and build on your work, and facilitates replication.
Sharing a paper or preprint on OSF accelerates scholarly communication, feedback that can improve the work, and discoverability of research. It only takes a few minutes.
Create a time-stamped registration of any OSF project, or begin a preregistration prior to your study to increase the transparency and quality of your research.
When you support COS, you’re helping to change the culture toward more open, rigorous, reproducible research. Support open science with a donation today.
Our blog and YouTube channel provide excellent information about open research best practices. Share these resources, or become an advocate by joining the COS Ambassador program.
COS has an amazing team of researchers, designers, developers, and communicators that help move open science forward. View our openings.
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COS has earned top recognition from Charity Navigator and Candid (formerly GuideStar) for our financial transparency and accountability to our mission. COS and the OSF were also awarded SOC2 accreditation in 2023 after an independent assessment of our security and procedures by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).
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