2023 Partners

Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. These are core values of scholarship and practicing them is presumed to increase the efficiency of acquiring knowledge. For COS to achieve our mission, we must drive change in the culture and incentives that drive researchers’ behavior, the infrastructure that supports their research, and the business models that dominate scholarly communication. This culture change requires simultaneous movement by funders, institutions, researchers, and service providers across national and disciplinary boundaries. Despite this, the vision is achievable because openness, integrity, and reproducibility are shared values, the technological capacity is available, and alternative sustainable business models exist.

COS’s philosophy and motivation is summarized in its strategic plan and in scholarly articles outlining a vision of scientific utopia for research communication and research practices. Because of our generous funders and outstanding partners, we are able to produce open-source products and services. Use the header above to explore the team, services, and communities that make COS possible and productive.

AIMOS (the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science) seeks to advance the interdisciplinary field of meta-research by bringing together and supporting researchers in that field.

Science aims to produce robust knowledge and the concept of reproducible experiments is central to this. However the past decade has seen a ‘reproducibility crisis’ in science. Across a number of scientific fields, such as psychology and preclinical medicine, large-scale replication projects have failed to produce evidence supporting the findings of many original studies. Meta-research will address this challenge head on.

The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) was founded in 2019 by a group of researchers, funders and data providers with a mission to accelerate transformative research on research systems, cultures and decision-making. RoRI was based initially at the Wellcome Trust in London. At the end of its pilot phase, RoRI was established as a nonprofit community interest company (CIC). Its second phase is now underway and will run for five years, to the end of 2027.

RoRI translates ideas and evidence into practical, real world solutions. We gather evidence and data, undertake experiments and develop tools to improve how research is funded, practised, communicated and evaluated. With our partners across 15 countries, we are building a community of people and organisations who want to change research for the better. Find out more and sign up for our newsletter at https://researchonresearch.org/.

2023 Sponsors

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsor Metascience 2023! We are seeking partners to help us bring the best experience to our attendees:

Promote your brand

Position your organization as a key supporter of efforts to improve the way scientific research is conducted

Network with leading metascience scholars

Meet and connect with prominent scientific researchers and technologists across disciplines and industries

Join in the momentum

Be part of the conversation and engage with key metascience communities of practice

Support Open Science beyond the event

Sponsorship proceeds benefit the Center for Open Science, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting transparency and reproducibility across the entire research lifecycle

For more information, please contact giving@cos.io.