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TheCenter for Open Science is anon-profit technology organization based inCharlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, andreproducibility of scientific research."[1]Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the organization in January 2013, funded mainly by theLaura and John Arnold Foundation and others.[2]
The organization began with work in reproducibility ofpsychology research, with the large-scale initiativeReproducibility Project: Psychology.[3][4][5] A second reproducibility project forcancer biology research has also been started through a partnership withScience Exchange.[6] In March 2017, the Center published a detailed strategic plan.[7] Brian Nosek posted a letter outlining the history of the Center and future directions.[8]
In 2020, the Center received a grant fromFast Grants to promote the publication ofCOVID-19 research on the platform.[9]
In 2021, the Center for Open Science was honored with theEinstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research [de] in the institutional category for their contribution to fostering research integrity and to improving transparency and accessibility.[10]
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is anopen 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,[11][12] but has subsequently become multidisciplinary.[13] 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, andJournal 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.[14]
In 2016, OSF started three newpreprint services:engrXiv,SocArXiv, and (with the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science)PsyArXiv.[15] It subsequently opened its own preprint server in 2017, OSF Preprints.[16] Its unified search function includes preprints from OSF Preprints, alongside those from other servers such asPreprints.org,Thesis Commons,PeerJ, and multipleArXiv repositories.[17]
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