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The Open Science Framework (OSF)

any kind of data

The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open free, open repository and platform to enable collaboration and support the entire research lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery. Features include automated versioning, logging of all actions, collaboration support, free and unlimited file storage, registrations, and connections to other tools/services (ie. Dropbox, figshare, Amazon S3, Dataverse, GitHub). It is 100% free to researchers, open source, and intended for use in all domain areas. OSF has an open, public API to support broad indexing, as well as a partnership with Internet Archive for long-term preservation with a $250k preservation fund and an IMLS grant for transfer to Internet Archive (currently in progress). The OSF supports embargoing during peer review via a view-only link with the ability to anonymize contributor list. It also provides managed access by allowing access requests and private sharing settings. OSF is a non-profit with direct funder support through grants, government contracts, and community memberships.

What is known per question

The questions of the decision tree, with what FAIRsharing says about this repository. ✓ supported, ✗ excluded, ? not known.

What kind of data do you want to archive?

Subjects: Subject Agnostic

Domains: Data analysis; Resource metadata

Does the journal or publisher you publish with require or recommend a repository?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Which discipline does your data belong to?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Which publisher?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Does your funder have requirements for where data is archived?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Which funder?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Does your institution offer a data repository?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Which institution?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Can your data be shared openly?

Data access: open: https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/cos.io/blob/master/TERMS_OF_USE.md

Data deposition: controlled: Account registration required. Projects and subprojects currently have a public 50 GB storage limit and a private 5 GB limit. 5 GB/file native storage limit. Unlimited storage per researcher and across add-ons connected to a given project.

How large is your dataset?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Why can the data not be open?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Under which license do you want to share the data?

Licences: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); MIT License; Apache License 2.0; BSD 2-Clause "Simplified"; BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License ; GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0; GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0; Artistic License 2.0; Eclipse Public License v1.0; GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1; GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0; Mozilla Public Licence Version 2.0 (MPL 2.0)

Do you need a persistent identifier, such as a DOI, for citing the data?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Must the data be stored in a specific region?

Country: Worldwide

Must archiving be free of charge?

FAIRsharing has no information on this.

Which country?

Country: Worldwide