Open and Reproducible Research on Open Science Framework

Abstract

By implementing more transparent research practices, authors have the opportunity to stand out and showcase work that is more reproducible, easier to build upon, and more credible. Scientists gain by making work easier to share and maintain within their own laboratories, and the scientific community gains by making underlying data or research materials more available for confirmation or making new discoveries. The following protocol gives authors step‐by‐step instructions for using the free and open source Open Science Framework (OSF) to create a data management plan, preregister their study, use version control, share data and other research materials, or post a preprint for quick and easy dissemination. © 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The Use of Mobile Applications in Research

“…These include an ELN such as Hivebench; an ELN adapted from OneNote (Guerrero et al., ; Kwok, ); or use of Evernote or Google Docs; the smart‐phone camera can be used for documentation and transfer of image to an ELN or to prepare a printout for a paper notebook. Open Science Framework (see Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques article Sullivan et al., ) is unique in creating a web‐based ELN for tracking the experiments not only from conception to completion, but also for open and transparent review of all phases of the experiment by the scientific community, thus providing outside detailed feedback on the experimental design, data, and conclusions. One interesting impact of this model is that all experiments, regardless of their outcome, can be reviewed by others before they begin similar experiments.…”

Behaviour Change for Open Science

“…To explore the potential of behaviour change to improve Open Science behaviours, we discuss an approach to develop effective interventions using the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) (Michie, Van Stralen, & West, 2011). The BCW was chosen as one of many potential frameworks and theories (Eldredge et al, 2016;Michie et al, 2014;O'Cathain et al, 2019) due to its development from a broad range of nineteen multidisciplinary frameworks (Michie et al, 2011) and its systematic guidance on designing and evaluating interventions that has been applied to a diverse range of behaviours internationally (Richardson, Khouja, Sutcliffe, & Thomas, 2019;Seppälä, Hankonen, Korkiakangas, Ruusuvuori, & Laitinen, 2018). To the authors' knowledge, as of yet no research has explored Open Science behaviours using the BCW.…”

“…Importantly, Open Science behaviour is comprised of a variety of discrete, lower-level behaviours that need to be performed to achieve the overall behaviour. For example, for a researcher to achieve the behaviour of uploading a pre-registration onto OSF, they first need to perform implementation tasks such as setting up an OSF account and adding collaborators, choosing a pre-registration template and establishing version control (Sullivan, DeHaven, & Mellor, 2019). A breakdown of any one of these lower-level behaviours may prevent the end-point Open Science behaviour from being achieved.…”

Proposal to NSF 19-565 to Create a STEM Education Research Hub

“…Much of it has been generated by others in the research community with similar interests. COS's contributions to this content include theoretical and practical articles (e.g., Kidwell et al, 2016;Soderberg, 2018;Sullivan et al, 2019), video instructional guides that have been viewed thousands of times, training material that has been refined over more than 100 training sessions, course content for syllabi and lesson plans, help guides for technical and practical questions, and a bibliography of evidence and best practices for reproducible scholarship (Center for Open Science, 2019). In short, there is a tremendous amount of existing content to seed the Hub.…”