Open Science Framework

Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open-source project management tool that helps researchers manage, store, and share research material (documents, code, data, pre-registration, preprints, etc) throughout the entire research lifecycle. 

OSF HOME: Create a free personal repository of public or private ‘projects’. Each project contains a wiki, file storage, ‘components’ (file structure), and tracks changes. Users also have the option to assign the project tags, copyright license, create a DOI, and integrate a number of ‘Add-Ons’  including GitHub, figshare, DropBox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, etc. The integration of Add-Ons allows the user to have an OSF repository without the need to duplicate research materials already available in other tools (such as data in a GitHub repository). 

OSF REGISTRIES:  An open repository of pre-registrations for experimental science. Pre-registrations do not need to be discipline or subject-specific and can follow a number of templates including AsPredicted.org, Registered Report Protocols, Replication Recipe (Brandt et al., 2013), Post-Completion, etc. 

OSF PREPRINTS: An open preprint repository. Preprints do not need to be from a specific subject or discipline. However, a number of preprint repositories use OSF’s open-source infrastructure, including PsyArXiv, MetaArXiv, and MindRxiv

Institutional support for Open Science Framework (OSF) is provided by Princeton University Library and Princeton Research Data Service.

• Institutional Affiliation within OSF (Princeton University OSF homepage)
• Princeton OSF Ambassador: Meghan Testerman

• Longevity: OSF has secured funding for at least the next 50 years.
• Individual file size limit: 50GB
• Storage limit per private project: 5GB
• Storage limit per public project: 50GB
• Additional storage can be added through the use of Add-Ons such as GitHub, figshare, or Dataverse

How to get started

• OSF
• “Sign in through institution” with your Princeton email address 

Getting set up

• Getting Started with OSF [2min video | 55min video]
• Using OSF to Share Data: A Step-by-Step Guide  
• Open and Reproducible Research on Open Science Framework

A complete list of videos from the Center for Open Science can be found here.

• OSF 101 [video 55:02]
• OSF in the Lab [video 51:14]
  • How to Use OSF as an Electronic Lab Notebook [video 28:05]
• Integrating your Protocols.io workspace with OSF [video 02:12]
  • Learn more about Protocols.io
• Connecting Research Tools using OSF 'Add-Ons' [video 44:46]
• Version Control with OSF [video 22:07]
• OSF Storage Integrations [blog and video 55:26]

• Index of public repositories and pre-registrations by Princeton researchers.
• Musslick, S. (2020, October 20). Supplemental materials for preprint: SweetPea: A standard language for factorial experimental design. Retrieved from osf.io/b4nsy  
• Cheek, N. N. (2020, September 4). Seeing the subjective as objective. Retrieved from osf.io/5cfbt
• Goldberg, A. E., Mon, S. K., Nencheva, M. L., Citron, F., & Lew-Williams, C. (2020, October 11). Pupillometry Data and Analysis. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DSN9W 
• [Pre-registration] Baek, S., Testerman, M. M., & Emberson, L. (2020, July 29). Attrition Rate in fNIRS-Based Infant Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meta-Analysis. Retrieved from osf.io/uc436
• [Preprint] Kumar, M., Michael Anderson, Antony, J., Baldassano, C., Brooks, P., Cai, M. B., … Norman, K. A. (2020, December 9). BrainIAK: The Brain Imaging Analysis Kit. Retrieved from osf.io/db2ev 

For questions about Open Science Framework (OSF) please contact Meghan Testerman, Behavioral Sciences Librarian at mtesterman@princeton.edu