Open Science Framework
A scholarly commons to connect the entire research cycle
Free and open source. Start now.
Simplified Scholarly Collaboration
Cloud-based management for your projects.
Structured projects
Keep all your files, data, and protocols in one centralized location. No more trawling emails to find files or scrambling to recover from lost data. Secure Cloud
Control access
You control which parts of your project are public or private making it easy to collaborate with the worldwide community or just your team. Project-level Permissions
Respect for your workflow
Connect your favorite third party services directly to the Open Science Framework. 3rd Party Integrations
OSF integrations make your workflow more efficient
Everything your research needs to be a success
Manage your project
View all of your projects from one dashboard.
Quickly share files
Share key project information and allow others to use and cite it.
See project changes
See the latest project changes, who is contributing and historical file versions.
View project analytics
Access project data ranging from visits over time to top referring websites.
Archive your data
Computer or collaborator explode? With the OSF you will never lose your project data.
Control access and collaboration
Add others to your projects to collaborate, or provide private access to view.
Supercharge your workflow
The OSF helps individuals, teams and labs make their research processes more efficient.
Registration
Preserve the state of a project at important parts of its lifecycle such as the onset of data collection.
Contribute to global scientific efforts
Labs and teams across the globe use the Open Science Framework to open their projects up to the scientific community. You can browse the newest and most popular public projects right here. Get involved
We are a mission-driven non-profit
The OSF is a free, open-source service of the Center for Open Science. We’re aligning scientific practices with scientific values by improving openness, integrity and reproducibility of research. Non-Profit
Teachers, researchers, and global teams rely on the Open Science Framework
Making research reproducible & verifiable
The OSF helps our students understand and apply sound data management principles to their work. And since we have easy access to all of the files the students are working with, it greatly enhances our ability to offer them constructive guidance.
Richard Ball, Professor of Economics, Haverford College
