Center for Open Science
The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the organization in January 2013, funded mainly by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and others. The organization began with work in reproducibility of psychology research, with the large-scale initiative Reproducibility Project: Psychology. A second reproducibility project for cancer biology research has also been started through a partnership with Science Exchange.
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The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the organization in January 2013, funded mainly by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and others. The organization began with work in reproducibility of psychology research, with the large-scale initiative Reproducibility Project: Psychology. A second reproducibility project for cancer biology research has also been started through a partnership with Science Exchange.
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In March 2017, the Center published a detailed strategic plan. Brian Nosek posted a letter outlining the history of the Center and future directions. In 2020, the Center received a grant from Fast Grants to promote the publication of COVID-19 research on the platform. In 2021, the Center for Open Science was honored with the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research in the institutional category for their contribution to fostering research integrity and to improving transparency and accessibility.
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is an open source software project that facilitates open collaboration in science research. The framework was initially used to work on a project in the reproducibility of psychology research, but has subsequently become multidisciplinary. The current reproducibility aspect of the project is a crowdsourced empirical investigation of the reproducibility of a variety of studies from psychological literature, sampling from three major journals: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Scientists volunteer to replicate a study of their choosing from these journals, and follow a structured protocol for designing and conducting a high-powered replication of the key effect. The results were published in 2015.
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In 2016, OSF started three new preprint services: engrXiv, SocArXiv, and (with the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science) PsyArXiv. It subsequently opened its own preprint server in 2017, OSF Preprints. Its unified search function includes preprints from OSF Preprints, alongside those from other servers such as Preprints.org, Thesis Commons, PeerJ, and multiple ArXiv repositories.
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- 1.Center for Open Science. Business Plan. January 2013.
- 2.Our Sponsors. cos.io.
- 3.Center for Open Science.
- 4.University of Virginia. New Center for Open Science Designed to Increase Research Transparency, Provide Free Technologies for Scientists. UVA Today. 4 March 2013.
- 5.Bohannon, John. Psychologists Launch a Bare-All Research Initiative. Science Magazine. 5 March 2013.
- 6.Reproducibility Initiative Receives $1.3M Grant to Validate 50 Landmark Cancer Studies.
- 7.COS: Strategic Plan, v2.0. Google Docs.
- 8.A Brief History of COS 2013-2017. cos.io.
- 9.Fast Grants.
- 10.Einstein Foundation Award Recipients and Finalists: Center for Open Science. Einstein Foundation Berlin.
- 11.Estes, Sarah. The Myth of Self-Correcting Science. The Atlantic. 20 Dec 2012.
- 12.Yong, Ed. Replication studies: Bad copy. Nature. 485. 7398. 298–300. 16 May 2012. 10.1038/485298a.
- 13.OSF Home. osf.io.
- 14.Open Science Collaboration. Estimating the reproducibility of Psychological Science. Science. 349. 6251. 2015. 10.1126/science.aac4716.
- 15.Kelly, Jane. Psychology Professor Releases Free, Open-Source, Preprint Software. UVA Today. 8 December 2016.
- 16.OSF Preprints. cos.io.
- 17.Search preprints. osf.io.
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