Preregistration

Disciplinary Research

• American Economic Association’s Randomized Controlled Trials Registry

• PreReg in Psychology

General Research 

• Artifacts

• AsPredicted

• GitHub

• OSF

Medical Research

•  Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry

• ClinicalTrials.gov

• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

• PROSPERO 

Data Management Plan

• DMP Tool

Methods & Protocols

• protocols.io

Ethical Guidelines

• National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (Australia)

Lib Guides

• Carnegie Mellon University

• Tulane University

• University of Mannheim

• University of Melbourne

Tutorials 

• OSF Handbook

CoSci registers all research activities that it supports through its Research Administration Office.  

This rule encompasses all sponsored projects, including meetings, classified studies, and work that leads to protected IP.  Restricted research may be registered without data or sensitive details, as negotiated with the sponsor.

Selection

PIs may choose their own platform(s) to report project details, such as hypothesis, methods, data, results, and the access and storage plan for data and published materials.  

During proposal development, PIs select the service or set of tools that they plan to use to preregister their project.  This selection process will produce an Open Source Science Plan, which will be added to the Facilities statement and Budget Justification portions of the proposal.

Management & Oversight

Upon award notification or transfer, an Open Source Science advisor will be assigned to the project.  

The advisor will work closely with the research team to provide support and guidance in OSS best practices, and to ensure that CoSci's institutional commitments are met through the project lifecycle, including post-project asset management. 

Costs & Budgeting Guidance

The standard budget item for OS projects is $2,500 per year and $10,000 in the final year to cover costs of quarterly reporting, coordinating and responding to peer review, data management, and null result analysis.  Post-project expenses will cover the cost of open access publication, long-term data storage, and curation of project outputs.  This may include special provisions for FAIR, CARE, TRUST, HIPAA, Indigenous Knowledge, embargoed and/or classified assets. 

Platform Guidance

CoSci will periodically review its preregistration policies, with input from its community of practice.  

This policy framework will be registered and archived on GitHub, forked to track changes over time.

The Open Science Foundation provides comprehensive tutorials and free services for individual users.  The OSF platform operates on FAIR principles and plugs into other important OSS systems, such as GitHub, ORCiD, Zotero, and DMP.  OSF is the default preregistration provider for CoSci sponsored projects.

• OSF

Blockchain-based Registry

• Artifacts

Code & Software Projects

• GitHub

Co-science Projects (for AI assisted research)

• Artifacts

Data Management Plan

• DMP Tool

Registered Reports (for peer reviewed data and analysis)

• OSF