Center for Open Science
URL | cos |
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Commercial | No |
Launched | 2013 |
Current status | Active |
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."[1] Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the organization in January 2013, funded mainly by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and others.[2]
The organization began with work in reproducibility of psychology research, with the large-scale initiative Reproducibility Project: Psychology.[3][4][5] A second reproducibility project for cancer biology research has also been started through a partnership with Science 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]
Open Science Framework[]
Reproducibility project[]
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,[9][10] but has subsequently become multidisciplinary.[11] 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.[12] Scientists from all over the world 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.[13]
Preprints[]
In 2016, OSF started three new preprint services: engrXiv, SocArXiv, and PsyArXiv.[14] It subsequently opened its own preprint server in 2017, OSF Preprints.[15] Its unified search function includes preprints from OSF Preprints, alongside those from other servers such as , , PeerJ, and multiple ArXiv repositories.[16]
See also[]
- Open science
- Replication crisis
- Metascience
- List of academic preprint servers
References[]
- ^ "Center for Open Science". Business Plan. January 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Our Sponsors". cos.io. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ "Center for Open Science". Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ University of Virginia (4 March 2013). "New Center for Open Science Designed to Increase Research Transparency, Provide Free Technologies for Scientists". UVA Today. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ Bohannon, John (5 March 2013). "Psychologists Launch a Bare-All Research Initiative". Science Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-05-11. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Reproducibility Initiative Receives $1.3M Grant to Validate 50 Landmark Cancer Studies". Archived from the original on 2015-01-29. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ^ "COS: Strategic Plan, v2.0". Google Docs. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ "A Brief History of COS 2013-2017". cos.io. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ Estes, Sarah (20 Dec 2012). "The Myth of Self-Correcting Science". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ Yong, Ed (16 May 2012). "Replication studies: Bad copy". Nature News. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ "OSF | Home". osf.io. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
- ^ "Do normative scientific practices and incentive structures produce a biased body of research evidence?".
- ^ Open Science Collaboration (2015). "Estimating the reproducibility of Psychological Science" (PDF). Science. 349 (6251): aac4716. doi:10.1126/science.aac4716. hdl:10722/230596. PMID 26315443.
- ^ Kelly, Jane (8 December 2016). "Psychology Professor Releases Free, Open-Source, Preprint Software". UVA Today. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "OSF Preprints". cos.io. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ^ "Search preprints". osf.io. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
External links[]
- Scholarly communication
- Open science
- Collaboration
- Collaborative software
- Non-profit organizations based in Charlottesville, Virginia
- 2013 establishments in Virginia
- Metascience-related organizations