Open Science

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by Dr Jan Roth

Open Science is becoming standard. It is a prerequisite of many funding agencies that at least the results of the study are open access. Ideally, all components of a study should be made public where possible.

I just came across the freely available Open Science Framework from the Center for Open Science (https://osf.io) that I will test for different projects supported by epidemos. The good thing is that it can cover the whole study process: You can upload study ideas, protocols, study data, scripts (code), research data, preprints etc. linked to a specific project. Every file gets a unique, persistent URL for citing and sharing.

Have you worked with OSF? I will definitely give it a try.

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