Open Science Framework:Supporting the research worflow

Brian NosekUniversity of Virginia

Improving science with openness

Top-down – fast, but narrow– Funders: levers only for grantee projects– Journals: only at point of publication

Bottom-up – slow, but comprehensive– Researcher’s entire workflow part of the

cumulative record– Leverage norms rather than requirements

Opening the research workflow

Registration is one piece

Open Science Framework (OSF)

Web app and tools for collaborating, documenting, archiving, sharing, and registering science

Respect workflow• Robust to different workflows• Integrate private and public workflows

Incentivize openness• Support top-down and bottom-up incentivization

Registration Existing solutions are: – Discipline specific– Appended to the workflow– Constrained to a point in time– Content restrictive

OSF registration is none of those. Instead:– Templating– Integrated in the workflow– Any time, any frequency– Registers everything

OSF Demo

Collaborator and Lead Developer: Jeff Spies

Open Science Framework

Open Science Framework (OSF)

• For collaboration, documentation, archiving, sharing, registration

• Integrates components of workflow• Replaces ad hoc archiving with shared solution• Merges private and public workflows• Integrates top-down and bottom-up solutions• Breaks disciplinary silos• Connects infrastructure

Set up your OSF account

http://openscienceframework.org/

The Sell

How can you get credit for doing good science?

Stick versus Carrot