Digital tools for research are software, platforms, and technologies that assist researchers in collecting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting data efficiently. They streamline the research process, enhance collaboration, and improve the accuracy and accessibility of results.

Research funders are requiring or strongly encouraging open and reproducible methods at increased rates, leading researchers to rely on more data management tools while institutions continue to provide services to support them. Research support staff adapt quickly to guide their stakeholders and provide resources, while administrators must find methods to determine adoption and success across the community.

In this webinar, COS Director of Policy David Mellor shares an update on funder expectations like preregistration, data sharing, and open access outputs, as well as strategies to highlight these practices in funding proposals. COS Director of Product Nici Pfeiffer also discusses OSF features that enable researchers to meet and exceed these expectations, as well as provide unique activity insights for administrators, and how COS continues to work with the funder and institution communities to facilitate transparent practices across the lifecycle.

Open source infrastructure has paved the way for mission-aligned research stakeholders to create a united vision of interoperable tools and services that accelerate scholarly communication, fill technology gaps, converge solutions, and enable access and discoverability.

Hear from a panel of research groups that have taken advantage of interoperable infrastructure to leverage more robust workflows to support rigorous, reproducible research. We also discuss the steps stakeholders and institutions can take to integrate OSF’s open API with existing services to establish streamlined researcher workflows.

View the slides from this presentation by visiting osf.io/ux7ed.

There are a range of places where teachers, educators and leaders can find research evidence, but some sources are more credible than others. Knowing how to identify credible sources increases the chances of finding high-quality research evidence.

This practice guide provides information about the types of print and online resources that contain research evidence, as well as using common library and online search tools.

The OSF Collections repository platform supports the discoverability and reuse of research by enabling the aggregation of related projects across OSF. With OSF Collections, any funder, journal, society, or research community can show their commitment to scientific integrity by aggregating the open outputs from their disciplines, grantees, journal articles, or more. Learn how research collections can foster new norms for sharing, collaboration, and reproducibility.

We also provide a demo of how OSF Collections aggregates and hosts your research by discipline, funded outcomes, project type, journal issue, and more.

Visit cos.io/collections to learn more.

Open Science accelerates the discovery of cures and advances new knowledge by improving the rigor and transparency of research and resusabilty of resulting data, materials, and code. But acceleration requires efficiency in managing the research lifecycle with integrated tools that work together to reduce the burden on investigators to manage, collaborate, and share as they work.

OSF provides the interface for research collaboration, with increased efficiency for the research team through integrated storage provider tools and citation managers.

Get familiar with the OSF project interface, understand how it can accelerate collaboration, transparency, sharing, and reuse of research outputs, and take a deep dive into integrations that connect directly into OSF for efficiency in researcher workflows.

Visit osf.io and help.osf.io to learn more.