OSF — Open Science Framework / Center for Open Science

Overview

OSF (Open Science Framework) is the flagship product of the Center for Open Science (COS), a non-profit organisation dedicated to increasing the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. Founded in 2013, COS develops OSF and other open science tools, runs the Preregistration Challenge and Registered Reports initiatives, and advocates for open science norms across disciplines. OSF itself supports the full research lifecycle: pre-registration, data, code, and materials sharing, preprints (via OSF Preprints), and team collaboration.

Widely used in psychology and increasingly in neuroscience and clinical research, OSF integrates with Zenodo and ReproNim tools.

COS Initiatives

• Preregistration via OSF Registries allows study designs and hypotheses to be registered before data collection, reducing publication bias.
• Registered Reports is a journal format where peer review occurs before data collection, with acceptance regardless of results.
• TOP Guidelines (Transparency and Openness Promotion) have been adopted by 5,000+ journals.
• OSF Preprints is a preprint server aggregating disciplinary preprint communities including PsyArXiv and SocArXiv.
• SHARE is a metadata aggregator for open scholarship outputs.

Connections

• Produced by: Center for Open Science

Resources

• https://osf.io
• https://www.cos.io (Center for Open Science)
• https://osf.io/registries (OSF Registries — preregistration)
• https://www.topfactor.org (TOP Guidelines journal adoption tracker)