1. The OSF is Free and Useful for Research and Teaching
Presented at
Fall Faculty Conference, 2016
Jon Grahe

2. Workshop Goals Understand the basic features of the
Open Science Framework (
Recognize ways to employ the OSF
for personal scholarship
for scholarship in the classroom

3. What do you know? The Replication Crisis
Open Invitation Collaboration Projects
The Reproducibility Project
Many Labs
Collaborative Replications and Education Project
Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions
Center for Open Science
Open Science Framework
Open Science Badges
Data and Materials
Preregistration

4. Open Science Framework
The OSF is a open sourced computer software platform written and managed by the Center for Open Science (
An OSF page is like an electronic file cabinet.
With an interactive cover page;
unlimited files and folders;
That can be shared easily with some, all, or none

5. Open Science Framework Features
Internet page for scholarship (home screen)
Components
Sharing with Contributors
Sharing with Public
File and Version Control
Connecting with add-ons (e.g. Dropbox)
Enabling Comments from contributors/public

6. Applying OSF features to Classroom
Student Projects are Research
Instructors are collaborators
Forked projects provide scaffolding
(copied from original)
Student Projects should be Shared
Comment features allow for direct, monitored peer-review feedback or other constituents
Capstone projects should be public

7. Center for Open Science OSF Curriculum
Introduction
Reproducibility, OSF and Reproducibility
Project setup
Creating, Contributors, Wiki, Components, Add Ons
Documentation
Registration, File and Version Control
Sharing
Contributors & Public Privacy,
Increasing Discoverability with tags
Conclusion
Take-aways, How to get more information

8. Other Resources CREP Instructions and Workflow Procedures
Build a basic project for students.
The CREP Step-by-Step provides instructions on how to build a project (
This Slide Show (
Available on P499- Capstone -Fall16_PLU OSF page
Use slides to build course specific instructions or as basic introduction

9. Capstone Psyc499 Integrates OSF
Psyc499, fall 2016 projects will be managed and evaluated using the OSF
Psyc499 as Potential Capstone Exemplar
Capstones as Scholarly Model
Instructions to Students and Faculty as Model for Fall Faculty Conference

10. A Non-Capstone Example of Student Learning

11. Features on OSF Project
Blue Box top left – Name project better than “CAPSTONE499 project
Purple Diamond – add a short description
Orange circle – Add contributors here
Purple circle – use this to configure
Yellow Circle – will expand the Wiki so that you can edit it.
Orange arrow middle – click here for your APA style citation
Orange Arrow bottom – you can drag and drop files
Blue arrow– make a new component

12. Editing a wiki on a component
Brown Circle on right – click edit to enter new window
Red Rectangle –Editing Mode
Yellow Rectangle –Editing Tools
Blue Rectangle – reader
Purple Rectangle – Editing Space

13. Make the Wiki informative and connected
Description
Editing Tools Menu
Red Square—bold/italic
Blue Square—spell check
Green Square--hyperlink
Green Circle—block quote
Pink Circle—code data
Pink Rectangle—add picture
Beyond
Numbered Lists
Bulleted Lists
Heading
Horizontal Rule

14. Sharing Add collaborators to share information, workload, and credit.
With collaborators
With Public
Add collaborators to share information, workload, and credit.
Search for OSF members,
Add non-OSF members anyway
Add with varying permissions
Includes view-only links for projects under review
Use the Public Button
Make public when ready. Anyone with link can access.
It can be made private again, but once public there is not guarantee
Add Keywords and tags

15. Adding Contributors Legend
Orange Rectangle – find contributors, new window
Green Rectangle – admins can add or delete, others can read and/or write
Blue Rectangle – determines whether someone is added in references/listed as contributor
Pink Rectangle – make view only links for manuscripts under review

16. File and Version Control
Types of control
Registration
Updating Wiki’s
Edits to the wiki are tracked by the OSF. Can revert to earlier version as administrator
Updating Files
OSF can track uploads of the same file as multiple versions (see COS curriculum)
With google drive
Use registration to date stamp an OSF project.
Cannot be revoked when finalized

17. Connecting with add-ons
For each component under parent project.
1st Block – basic info
2nd Block – select add-ons
3rd Block – config. add-ons
4th Block – enable Wiki
5th Block – commenting
Either contributors or all users
6th Block – Project Affiliation/Branding

18. Add-ons Explored
Use what you know
Here’s what I know
Dropbox – anything that is added to the dropbox folder is added to the OSF page(and reverse) and all computers attached to that dropbox
Google Drive – easy connect to google.docs. Like Dropbox in Google
OSF Storage—Drag and drop from hard-drive to OSF
External Link—Embed hyperlinks into the Wiki for easy connection to important resources
Mendelay/Zotero – These track citations as an alternative to Endnote

19. Commenting Explored Peers or Professors
Comments are links to a specific page, not all pages
Must have an OSF account to make posts (comments or public)
Activity is date/time stamped
Configure settings to receive notification of comments

20. Capstone Work Flow -- Early
Before Semester
Get signed into course
Have faculty mentor review and provide feedback on capstone project
Build an OSF project with minimal information; add instructor, partner, faculty mentor
First Week
Finalize Idea
Demonstrate commitment to project
Upload HPRB or brief summary
INSTRUCTOR--Review and Approve OSF page; easy to track project information; student work automatically date stamped

21. Capstone Workflow -- Middle
Update OSF page
Build Appropriate Components
Background, Methods and Analyses, Ethics Proposal-Approval,
Drafts, Final Manuscript, Ancillary Files, Other
INSTRUCTOR or Faculty Mentor
Receive links to check rather than attached files.
Can download and comment on files.
Can comment directly on page
Students
Peer Review through shared component or commenting or view only links

22. Capstone Workflow -End
Complete OSF Page
Update data and analyses
Upload poster
Upload final manuscript
Make one or more components public
Instructor
Evidence of data and analyses
Download and grade manuscript
Easy access to ancillary materials

23. Find Support
– they are highly motivated to improve scientific transparency by making sure your OSF experience is rewarding
Jon Grahe – invite me to your department or division for workshops
This Slide Show (
Available on P499- Capstone -Fall16_PLU OSF page
Use slides to build course specific instructions or as basic introduction