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Center for Open Science Expands Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) Program Efforts

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“The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded a grant to the Center for Open Science (COS) to enhance the development of automated confidence evaluation of research claims. 

COS and its collaborators will extend their work from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program, administered by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The SCORE program demonstrated the potential of using algorithms to evaluate claims on a large scale efficiently. With funding from  RWJF, COS enters a research and development phase to revolutionize research claim assessment by providing scalable and valid algorithmic methods….”

Center for Open Science Coordinates NASA-Funded Initiative to Support the Year of Open Science

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“The Center for Open Science (COS), with support from NASA, is collaborating with 16 organizations that have signed up to participate in the Year of Open Science. Funders, members of the scholarly communications community, builders of standards and research infrastructure, and advocacy organizations have signaled their support for NASA’s plans to Transform to Open Science (TOPS).

As part of the Year of Open Science, NASA made an open call to the research community to join the Year of Open Science efforts to accelerate several priorities, and the research community responded. The participating organizations have committed to advancing four goals:

Establish strategic approaches for advancing open science;
Promote equitable participation in open science through transparency, integrity and equity of reviews;
Account for open science activities in evaluations and incentives; and
Engage underrepresented communities in the advancement of open science and research….”

Sharing Research Data and Creating Visibility for Your Research Community

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“In this webinar, product specialists from the Center for Open Science will discuss the free, open-source software platform Open Science Framework (OSF). We will discuss the suite of features available to researchers and research support staff from the beginning to end of the research and publishing process. We will discuss how to manage and share files, data, data management plans, code, and protocols in one centralized location. We’ll also review how you can easily build customized structures for projects, collaborate with other OSF users, utilize metadata and PIDs, manage privacy and licensing, integrate third party storage, create customized workflows, and build branded, aggregated, or curated pages of projects and registrations.”

Improving the Research Culture: COS Celebrates 10 Years

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“Improving the Research Culture: COS Celebrates 10 Years

May 25th, 2023,Center for Open SciencePosted in: Open Science, Culture ChangeBlue background with COS logo and tagline that reads “Science Works Best in the Open”

The Center for Open Science (COS) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday, May 8, 2023 at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC. This event featured a day-long symposium with partners and supporters to discuss the progress and future direction of open science.

The anniversary symposium included presentations by COS staff and board members about the progress, strategy, and direction to advance its mission, along with stakeholders and colleagues giving presentations that highlighted particular areas of open science practices, impact, and COS’s Theory of Change.

Recordings from this event are now available….”

Open Science Foundation Preprint Services: Advancing Science, Driving Impact, Opening Access, and Saving Money

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“We are a cross-disciplinary coalition of academic scholars from across the globe partnering with the non-profit Center for Open Science (COS) to provide open access to academic scholarship through disciplinary preprint servers that host cutting edge, open access scholarship . We partner with COS through OSF Preprints, a service which runs on the Open Science Framework….

For a Fraction of Your Subscription Costs, Your Support Can Sustain the Future of Open Access.

Preprints are a powerful form of open-access scholarship and are a key component of an open and transparent research lifecycle. They are also an exceptional value: we are currently able to provide these services for free to both researchers and readers. We predict that over the next 10 years, the annual hosting costs for our preprint servers will be $250,000 per year; $2.5 million over the next decade. We would love to meet with you and your colleagues to discuss how your institution can support our coalition with an investment towards defraying those costs and building a vital part of the future infrastructure for open science.”

 

Sharing Research Data and Creating Visibility for Your Research Community

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“In this webinar, product specialists from the Center for Open Science will discuss the free, open-source software platform Open Science Framework (OSF). We will discuss the suite of features available to researchers and research support staff from the beginning to end of the research and publishing process. We will discuss how to manage and share files, data, data management plans, code, and protocols in one centralized location. We’ll also review how you can easily build customized structures for projects, collaborate with other OSF users, utilize metadata and PIDs, manage privacy and licensing, integrate third party storage, create customized workflows, and build branded, aggregated, or curated pages of projects and registrations.”

Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History – by Stuart Buck

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“This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).

Click and keep reading if you want to know:

How the Center for Open Science started

How I accidentally up working with the John Oliver show

What kept PubPeer from going under in 2014

How a new set of data standards in neuroimaging arose

How a future-Nobel economist got started with a new education research organization

How the most widely-adopted set of journal standards came about

Why so many journals are offering registered reports

How writing about ideas on Twitter could fortuitously lead to a multi-million grant

Why we should reform graduate education in quantitative disciplines so as to include published replications

When meetings are useful (or not)

Why we need a new federal data infrastructure

I included lots of pointed commentary throughout, on issues like how to identify talent, how government funding should work, and how private philanthropy can be more effective. The conclusion is particularly critical of current grantmaking practices, so keep reading (or else skip ahead)….”

FORRT and the Center for Open Science Join Forces to Foster Open and Reproducible Research Training

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“The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) and the Center for Open Science (COS) are thrilled to announce an exciting partnership, representing a significant step forward in our shared mission to use education to promote open and reproducible research practices. The partnership enables the scientific community to build upon each other’s work and advance knowledge collaboratively.”

How to Promote the Discoverability of Research at Your Organization

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“In this webinar, product specialists from the Center for Open Science (COS) will discuss the free, open-source software platform Open Science Framework (OSF) and the specialized suite of tools that we offer research organizations for more visibility into and support of their community’s open scholarship practices. We welcome research coordinators, funders and research administrators to join us in exploring how OSF Collections might be a helpful tool for your research community. …”

 

Center For Open Science – Research Scientist

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“The Research Scientist will play a key role in the execution of projects by a set deadline. They communicate with internal and external stakeholders to make decisions and monitor the progress of the project to keep it on schedule. This position will be focused on advancing the research agenda examining open science initiatives. Examples include, but are not limited to, open science badges, preregistration, and Registered Reports. This role is responsible for supporting and implementing ongoing research projects examining open science initiatives and participating in identifying and designing future projects. The Research Scientist will work with other COS teams to understand current opportunities and to provide research insights to advance our mission….”

Confidence at Scale: Using Technology to Assess Research Credibility

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“After multiple years of data collection, the Research team at the Center for Open Science (COS) is preparing for the end of its participation in DARPA’s Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program and the transition to the work that follows. SCORE has been a significant undertaking spanning multiple research teams and thousands of researchers and participants throughout the world – all collaborating to answer a single question: Can we create rapid, scalable, and valid methods for assessing confidence in research claims?…

How do you believe the objectives of SCORE contribute to Open Science more generally?

KU: The scale and rigor behind SCORE are unlike anything that was achieved so far in the open science research space. Each step of the project has been carefully planned to ensure that we can reach decisive conclusions regarding the current state of social and behavioral science research which makes me confident in SCORE’s ability to transform our understanding of the state of the field….”

Watch the Supporting Open Science in the Promotion & Tenure Process: Lessons from the University of Maryland Webinar

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“The academic promotion and tenure process establishes the incentive structure for institutions of higher education. Open science champions have long advocated for the process to better reflect important open science scholarship that is often under-valued and neglected in academia.

COS hosted a webinar on September 27, 2022, highlighting the five-year effort in the Psychology Department at the University of Maryland to adopt new guidelines that explicitly codify open science as a core criteria in tenure and promotion review. According to Dr. Michael Doughetry, Department Chair, the new policy was necessary to ensure incentives for advancement reflect the values of scientists and their institutions….”

500,000 OSF Users: Celebrating a Global Open Science Community

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“Ten years ago, open science was an unfamiliar concept and the only practitioners were innovators seeking to do science in a more rigorous, transparent, and inclusive way. These innovators engaged research communities across the world around open research practices, and now we celebrate 500,000 registered users on the Open Science Framework (OSF), one of many indicators that open science is now mainstream.

OSF has experienced non-linear growth every year since it launched in November 2012. In early 2013, OSF was a self-funded lab project with just 371 users. Since then, OSF gained critical support from private funders such as Arnold Ventures to become a robust public goods infrastructure to enable open science behaviors. This kickstarted a culture change process enabling grassroots communities to advance new norms by increasing the visibility of open science and offering peer-to-peer training on how to get started….”