The Center for Open Science (COS) is a nonprofit organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. COS is dedicated to improving the alignment between scientific values and scientific practices to improve the accumulation and application of knowledge. Operating with a technology start-up atmosphere and mindset, the COS team moves quickly, identifies problems, and creates solutions, encourages risk-taking, blends science and technology, and is collaborative, high energy, and dedicated to openness.
About Us
COS has three primary activities:
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure development to support the scientific workflow and to connect technologies that support scientific research and communication, such as the Open Science Framework.
Community Building
Community building on open practices among open-source developers, open science researchers, and the broader scientific community, such as the Open Science Collaboration.
Metascience
Metascience, research on scientific practices, such as Reproducibility Project: Psychology and our partnership with Science Exchange, Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology.
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