The Center for Open Science (COS) has secured funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for advancing the development of open-source ecosystems (OSEs) through its Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program.
COS, known for curating and sustaining the Open Science Framework (OSF), a free, open-source project management and collaboration platform, champions the cause of supporting researchers throughout the research lifecycle. This involvement of research communities in co-evolving OSF fortifies open science practices, ensuring the durability and robustness of scholarly research.
This endorsement fortifies OSF's commitment to fostering researcher collaboration, data sharing, output dissemination, and research discoverability, contributing to the broader landscape of open science.
The NSF's POSE award is slated to ignite community-driven development and expansion of open scholarship practices through a distributed OSE centered around OSF. The initiative intends to amplify community-driven open scholarship by: Aligning OSF Integrations and Workflows: Meeting new policy mandates for publicly releasing research results and underlying data; Establishing Governance Structures: Steering the trajectory of the Open Scholarship OSE by engaging community development contributors; Providing Infrastructure for Research Sharing: Enabling sharing, discovery, and reuse of open research outputs; Encouraging Diverse Community Participation: Removing barriers and fostering ongoing participation in open scholarship; Simplifying Research Sharing Processes: By integrating new digital storage locations and expanding the applicability across disciplines using OSF; and Facilitating Researcher Involvement: Building communication pathways for active engagement and seamless implementation of open scholarship practices.
COS anticipates initiating the community-led development of OSF by engaging collaborators, offering grants for projects contributing new integrations to OSF's research lifecycle workflows, and inviting the community to join an annual hackathon event.
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