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The OSF supports integration with a variety of third-party services such as Dropbox, GitHub, Google Drive, and others. By connecting these external storage and version control services to your OSF project, you can streamline your workflow, ensure that all your research outputs are centrally accessible, and maintain version control across platforms.
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Here’s how to make the most out of this integration:
Centralize Your Research Outputs
Consolidate Files: Connect your preferred storage services to your OSF project. This allows you to access all your research files, datasets, and code from a single platform, reducing the need to switch between different services and ensuring that your project remains organized and up-to-date.
Maintain Version Control Across Platforms
Unified Version History: By integrating services like GitHub with OSF, you can maintain a comprehensive version history of your research outputs. This is especially useful for coding projects where tracking changes and contributions is crucial. The OSF interface provides a straightforward way to navigate these versions, ensuring transparency and facilitating collaboration.
Automate Data Syncing
Streamline Updates: Once you've linked your third-party services to your OSF project, changes made in those external platforms can be automatically synced with your OSF project. This ensures that your project always contains the most current files, eliminating manual updates and reducing the risk of using outdated versions.
Facilitate Data Sharing and Preservation
Share with Confidence: Integration with data storage services enables you to share large datasets with collaborators or the public easily. This not only facilitates collaboration but also ensures that your data is preserved in a secure, accessible location.
Leverage Specialized Tools for Specific Tasks
Use the Best Tools for the Job: By integrating specialized tools (e.g., Jupyter Notebooks for interactive data analysis), you can leverage the strengths of these platforms while keeping your workflow centralized on the OSF. This approach allows for more sophisticated data analysis and visualization within the context of your broader research project.
Steps to Integrate Services:
- Navigate to Your Project: Go to the project you want to integrate with a third-party service.
- Open Settings: Look for the "Add-ons" section in your project settings.
- Choose and Connect: Select the service you want to integrate (e.g., Dropbox, GitHub) and follow the prompts to connect it to your OSF project.
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By taking advantage of the OSF’s support for third-party service integrations, you can create a more efficient and seamless research workflow. This approach not only simplifies project management but also enhances collaboration, ensuring that all team members have access to the latest versions of files, can leverage the best tools for specific tasks, and can work together in real time on shared documents.
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Want to learn more about using OSF to support sharing and discovery of your research? Check out our upcoming OSF webinars!
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Getting Started on the OSF: A Hands-on Guide
May 29 at 11 am ET
Ten years after DORA, research assessment reform is accelerating globally. This webinar highlights major efforts in the U.S. and worldwide, focusing on essential insights for leaders, staff, and researchers. The HELIOS Open initiative and the National Academies' Roundtable are advancing open scholarship in the U.S., while CoARA leads qualitative evaluation internationally.
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Getting Started on the OSF: A Hands-on Guide
June 3 at 9 am ET
This webinar explores a variety of use cases highlighting how OSF can support your open science practices and solve common problems many researchers face throughout the research lifecycle, while also providing a guided tour through key workflows and features.
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Generalist Repository Data Sharing Workflows: NIH-funded Researcher
June 26 at 2 pm ET
In this webinar, researchers will share real-world open data case studies on end-to-end data-sharing workflows in GREI repositories. These examples will highlight how NIH-funded researchers practice FAIR data sharing and meet NIH requirements. NIH-supported researchers, both extramural and intramural, are invited to attend. There will be time for questions and discussion.
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We are currently looking at implementing new preregistrations templates into the OSF. If you are interested in providing feedback for these templates in the form of surveys and focus groups, please fill out our contact enrollment form below and we will be in touch with opportunities to get involved!
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