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Start the new year by strengthening your commitment to open science. OSF offers tools to enhance transparency and collaboration throughout your research, from conception to publication. This month's newsletter highlights how OSF supports each stage of the research lifecycle, making your work more transparent and reproducible. Whether starting fresh or building on existing projects, OSF is here to help.
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Open science is a global movement that champions transparency, accessibility, and collaboration in research. By promoting practices like data sharing and preregistration, open science accelerates scientific progress and builds trust in research findings.
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Incorporating open science practices can significantly enhance the quality, credibility, and impact of your research. Open science is a collective effort that invites everyone— regardless of role or experience— to contribute to a more equitable and trustworthy research ecosystem.
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OSF: Your All-in-One Open Science Tool
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From planning to final publication, the OSF platform enables you to easily organize, document, and share your research. Whether you're preregistering a study, tracking changes, or publishing final results, OSF’s robust features help you maintain transparency and streamline your research workflow.
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New to the OSF?
...Or looking to brush up on the basics?
Your path to more open, efficient, and organized research projects starts here.
Check out our Guide to Getting Started.
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Already Familiar?
Take your projects further with advanced OSF features, including:
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University of Manchester
Open research is a priority for the University of Manchester (UoM), which is committed to fostering a healthier and more collaborative research culture.
UoM has integrated OSF institution-wide and created a comprehensive framework to support open science across departments, encouraging transparency and integrity in research practices.
Read more about UoM's approach.
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The Monotropism Questionnaire
With thousands of users across disciplines, OSF supports countless research endeavors. Explore the platform to see how others are advancing open science! One standout example is The Monotropism Questionnaire, a tool designed to assess monotropism—a cognitive style marked by focused attention on a small number of interests. This project exemplifies the full research lifecycle, integrating transparent planning, data collection, analysis, and more.
View the project on OSF.
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Lifecycle Journal: Adding Trust to Your Research
As part of our commitment to supporting researchers with tools like OSF, COS is launching Lifecycle Journal, a new model of scholarly communication designed to enhance transparency and trust in research.
The Lifecycle Journal model puts publishing and evaluation in the hands of the research community. Like OSF, Lifecycle Journal supports open science throughout the research lifecycle, enabling research outputs to be shared, published, and evaluated at all stages.
Submissions to Lifecycle Journal are now open!
Learn more and submit
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For more useful resources to support the sharing and discovery of your research, check out our upcoming free webinars!
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Getting Started on the OSF
Second Monday each month at 11 AM ET
Join our monthly webinars to explore a variety of use cases that highlight 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 the platform's key workflows and features.
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Let’s Talk About Responsible Research
February 11, 2025 at 11 AM ET
In this webinar, Dr. Nikki Osborne, Founding Director of Responsible Research, will discuss the concept of responsible research and share her accompanying six-step checklist. These steps can be applied across all scholarly disciplines to deliver responsible, rigorous, and reproducible research.
Sign up
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We are always looking for volunteers to help give feedback on the newest updates of the OSF. If you are interested in providing feedback 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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OSF is developed and maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS), a nonprofit in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. COS works to transform the culture of scientific research by developing open research technologies, offering training resources, engaging with research communities, conducting metaresearch, and partnering for change with science funders, institutions, and policymakers.
We invite you to learn more about COS’s efforts and to discover how open science is evolving across many different research landscapes by registering for our newsletter. We respect your privacy—and your inbox! We won’t spam you, and we will never sell, rent, or trade your contact information. You may unsubscribe from all COS communications at any time.
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