Data-Sharing on The Augmented Scholar

OSF — Preregistration and Open Science Projects

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What OSF is

The Open Science Framework is a free research platform from the Center for Open Science, a non-profit. It hosts projects — files, wikis, and collaborators — mints DOIs, serves preprints, connects to your existing storage, and, most importantly, produces preregistrations: timestamped, permanently uneditable records of what you planned to do before you did it.

Zenodo — Free Permanent DOIs for Research Outputs

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What Zenodo is

Zenodo is a general-purpose research repository operated by CERN and funded through European open-science programmes. You upload a research output of almost any kind — a dataset, a software release, a poster, a slide deck, a protocol, a set of negative results — and it issues a DOI and preserves the record.

Figshare — Institutional Repository for Research Outputs

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What Figshare is

Figshare is a research repository that issues DOIs for datasets, figures, posters, presentations, and other outputs. It is a commercial product from Digital Science, and its distinctive business is institutional portals: universities license a branded Figshare instance that becomes their official repository, feeding deposits into research information systems and reporting automatically.