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2023 on the OSF
It's been an amazing year in the advancement of the OSF! To close out the year, let’s review some of the new features that have been added to improve researchers' ability to share their work openly and transparently.
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The Community Pulse provides opportunities to participate in OSF feature testing, requests for new features, and engaging directly with exceptional OSF users and use cases. If you would like to participate in a future Community Pulse, please reach out to Daniel ( dan...@cos.io).
This month we would like to learn more about your experiences with OSF Tips and Tricks. The COS team is proud to provide OSF Tips and Tricks to highlight ways to more effectively use the OSF. In order to continue improving this resource, we would very much appreciate your feedback through this short, 3-minute survey, along with your ideas for future topics! |
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Effective metadata is essential for enhancing the discoverability of research materials, making them easily understandable and findable by external researchers, and aiding in the identification of projects worth citing. The OSF introduced new metadata fields, enabling users to comply with funder requirements and describe their materials comprehensively. These include specifying the resource type, language, funders, award title, and identifier. A new innovative feature on OSF allows you to add metadata directly to files, emphasizing their unique characteristics and enhancing the discoverability of specific files within projects. This new feature is accessible on individual file pages and encourages and maximizes the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) across OSF services.
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Part of effective metadata is the leveraging of PIDs to ensure perpetual access to information about various research elements, including researchers, institutions, funders, data, registrations, and publications. OSF metadata enables the connection of various PIDs to OSF content, offering a transparent and connected pathway for showcasing an individual's entire body of work while connecting to outside platforms such as Datacite and Crossref.
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The increasing demand for open sharing of research outputs, along with extensive user and community feedback, prompted the development of a new and improved search page. Brand-new search features streamline and expedite the process of finding content on OSF. The new search page provides valuable insights for institutional administrators, funder program officers, and librarians, enhancing their ability to locate relevant funded research and interdisciplinary collaborations. With the recent metadata features, OSF search now empowers targeted searches, such as isolating OSF projects or finding studies specifically funded by institutions like the National Institutes of Health.
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The new OSF search helps optimize content discovery with new features, like filtering by funder, to efficiently identify funded content, exploring lifecycle relationships across different research stages, and searching for researchers by name and institution.
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What Does This Mean for Me and My Research?
Discoverability drives research. By connecting metadata with recent search improvements, your public research posted on the OSF is now more discoverable than ever. This means more views, more citations, and more researchers building on your work in your field.
Make your work easy to find! Add metadata to your files, projects, preprints, and registrations. While you’re at it, try out our new search feature to discover ongoing work in your field.
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Community Metadata Standards Using CEDAR
In the coming months, the OSF will start to implement community-defined metadata templates for research communities using the CEDAR embeddable editor. CEDAR is a platform designed to help research communities create metadata standards that provide more precise detail and clarity to their object, increasing discoverability. The embeddable editor allows us to integrate those community-developed standards into OSF content. Communities interested in implementing metadata standards into the OSF please contact sup...@osf.io.
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2023 marks our inaugural year of sharing valuable tips on open science and optimizing OSF usage. Explore these helpful insights below!
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Stay Connected
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