What is expected?
- This is a hands-on course to get started with OSF. You won’t need any experience with the tool beforehand.
- We will show the differences and similarities between OSF and other tools at the VU (such as Yoda)
- We will make a preregistration of a (mock) OSF research
What is OSF?
The OSF is an open-source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. As a collaboration tool, OSF helps research teams work on projects privately or make the whole project publicly accessible for broad dissemination. As a workflow system, OSF enables connections to the many scientific tools researchers already use, streamlining their process and increasing efficiency. You may even use OSF as a portfolio tool for sharing your work as a prepublication with potential collaborators.
You can check out OSF at https://osf.io/ and sign in via institution with your VUnetID.
OSF is already in use by multiple researchers at the VU, for example, by Rene Bekkers: https://osf.io/2zmga/ .
You can also watch back the presentations about OSF by Jacek Buczny and Anita Eerland.
Who should attend?
The course is organized for researchers and support staff working at the VU. You might find it useful if you are looking for new ways to organize your work, collaborate with colleagues, and share your research data or outputs.