Scientific rigor and transparency are key factors in making research outcomes more impactful. However, increasing rigor often requires that researchers and labs implement new practices and learn new tools. The good news is that the Center for Open Science (COS) offers a variety of training modules to help you navigate this complexity.
We have developed a robust, hands-on, pragmatic curriculum, curated from use cases developed in collaboration with the community of open researchers we engage, continuously iterating to bring forth new use cases, examples and workflows.
The modular curriculum content will help researchers answer common questions:
- What is reproducibility and what are the current issues and barriers?
- What actions in daily research throughout the research lifecycle can be adapted to be more reproducible?
- How will making my research reproducible help science and my career?
- How can I increase transparency in my research workflow?
- What is a research or data management plan and how can I implement this in my research workflow?
- What are tools that can streamline the open and transparent practices in my research workflow?
- How can OSF help in my application of open and rigorous research practices?
- How can I make my research open, share it with other researchers in my field or beyond and receive credit for my work?
- How can I integrate tools I use in OSF to have an efficient research workflow?