Center for Open Science

The Center for Open Science (COS) was founded in 2013 to start, scale, and sustain open research practices that will democratize access to research, improve inclusion of all stakeholders, enhance accountability to research integrity, facilitate the self-corrective process of science, expand transparency and sharing of all research content, and improve research rigor and reproducibility.

To meet that objective, COS employs a systems strategy involving technology to make open practices possible and easy, community building to make open practices normative, and stakeholder engagement to make open practices rewarding and required.

COS’s philosophy and motivation is summarized in its strategic plan and in scholarly articles outlining a vision of scientific utopia for research communication, practice, and collaboration, found on https://www.cos.io/about.