 That was fun. I'm going to go back to home and we're going to go on to the next phase of the OSF You're planning your research registrations versus preregistrations, right? This typically happens in this phase of developing an idea study idea study design and acquiring materials, so First off, what is a registration now the typical, you know trajectory of research is you design a project You conduct that project You report on that project and you publish that project The peer review phase happens between the report and publish when you submit to a publisher somebody reviews it and decides whether it's worthy of publishing problem with that and one of the replication problems is that It tends to lead to only successful studies really working out And being published it doesn't really add credit to all the work that happens beforehand it also kind of incentivizes people to You know if they get a result that doesn't match what their plan was they could have just they could just change their plan and then Suddenly the results match what they planned to do In big air quotes the metaphor we like to use is it's like if you fired a bow and arrow And wherever that arrow landed you just drew a target around it and said yeah, that's totally what I meant to do That's not really transparency and that's not really how research is supposed to go uh, and by doing that you kind of lose faith in the research process, so registrations are a way of combating that So talking about preregistration a preregistration or registration is a time-stamped version a read-only version of your research plan It's created at a very specific moment in time and the point is is that you are basically calling your shot You are locking in your plan at a certain phase and saying at this time at this date This was my research plan. Here's what my hypothesis is. Here's what we're going to do Here's what we're going to analyze and how it's going to happen And then at the end when you are finally publishing you can share that preregistration and say look Back at this date at this time This is what my plan was and see I actually got the results that I want Now the question that we usually get here is what are the difference between registrations and preregistrations? And that is a little bit ambiguous because sometimes in the world they are used synonymously But at least on the osf. This is how we kind of define it It's really based on the timing of when you're submitting this registration versus preregistration So again up here at the top you have design conduct report and publish That's a general timeline for a research project now for a preregistration What you are doing is while you are designing and preparing to conduct that experiment you're filling out the form Now prior to actually conducting that experiment you submit this form you submit this preregistration form that locks it in place You have a time stamp that says this is what my plan was at this moment in time prior to conducting this experiment Now obviously things change and you can update that form But every version it'll create a new version of that preregistration and every version will tell that story. It's kind of like You know one of those old timey flip books where you have you know one version And then one page and one image and one image and one minute one minute And every time you're flipping it you're getting that full story of what's happening And that can happen all the way up until you publish The point is that when you publish you can call your shot and say hey I did this my idea happened right before we conducted experiments. So no funny business happened Whereas registrations, they're a little bit more ambiguous on the timeline Again, you are trying to fill out that form as prior to conducting your experiment But you can actually submit that form really after you've conducted your experiment while you're reporting all the way up until the moment that you actually publish As you can tell we we're not That's not super transparent and we don't love that idea We do push people to try and pre-register work as that is probably the more transparent of methods But the problem is is that things happen COVID-19 for example, or uh, you know things change in your research lab Uh, you have to make changes Some you know some forms some disciplines that Pre-registration just isn't super practical. Um, especially for something more applied disciplines So registering your work is still very important But we do tend to push towards pre-registrations the second part of this That's I usually get as a question is the idea of scooping For those of you who don't know scooping is a term where You have an idea you share it with somebody you probably shouldn't have And that person has more resources more time more money And they conduct your experiment before you do and they get to publishing before you do Um, obviously that doesn't work very well in this idea of pre-registration If I submit this publicly someone could just take my work And they could publish before me So obviously we live in the real world We would love if you shared your work publicly beforehand, you know, you get a time stamp with that But uh, we do also offer the idea of embargoing So embargoing is Temporarily making a registration private And you can submit it up to four years after you've submitted it Um, this gives you time in order to, you know, conduct your actual experiment You've submitted a time stamp But you can conduct your experiment, finish your analyses, get ready to publish Have it submitted for publication, have it published, and then release Your registration to the public and say, hey I called my shot when And that looks like this And it also made me wonder, what does that look like on the OSF? Um, I'll show you right here So here is a Example of a registered Registration on the OSF That is Embargoed Can anyone see anything? So if someone just randomly finds your link, clicks in, you know, random digits They find your registration, they will see a page that says page not found This same exact registration on the same exact Link in a view-only version, which you could share with Colleagues or people that you trust or grant evaluators You could share a view-only link, which edits that URL to give you a private version of that Space, that's the difference between seeing a embargoed registration Versus an embargo registration with a view-only link Okay Now let's go back to here Let's see what some of these registrations actually look like So, exploring what a registration looks like can be as simple as This, so this is an updated version of a registration Starting here on the side, you will see a little bit of the tabs again You can add metadata to your registration, files, resources, anything like that Those open resources badges, those links are found here on the side So if I go to resources, I could see the data that is connected with this OSF registration Along, as you go down the column, you'll see the content that is available for this registration You also see the timestamp and the type of registration that this is This is an OSF pre-registration and it was created on September 23rd, 2020 You'll see all the contributors that are associated with this registration It's important to note that contributors on the registration need to be admin in order to accept that registration All registrations that are public have a DOI That is a digital object identifier, which is a persistent link that will never break and never change So if you're going to share your work with a publication or a registration, you're going to want to share your DOI You can also add a license or citation to make sure that you are telling people how you want your work to be shared Again, I said that registrations can be updated The original version Is found here and you can see that what the original plan was and and any Additional versions of that registration. You'll see the latest version Where they'll give the reason for the update and what sections were actually updated in comparison Again looking at that flip-flop Now going to our next version Let's take a second and let's look at how can I actually create a registration now the first second One thing I want to do is go up to this top section and look at add new I'm going to click and it's going to create take me to the osf registration strap page From here. I'll have two options Do I create a registration from an existing osf project? So if you've been working really hard on an osf project and you want to use that to like Create a snapshot of that rich that osf project You can absolutely do that All I would do is click yes, and then I would select what project I want to work from And that'll pre fill in a lot of the information from your registration into whatever template you would like to use The other aspect is if I want to start brand new So if I want to just start a registration from scratch I don't have a project I'm working from I can click no and I can select what template I would like to use Now these templates are all based around trying to give you different criteria and framework in order to frame How you want to plan your study plan your registration There are different options, and I can't really tell you which one works best for you The team has a chat. They'll send in the chat a A link that'll help you essentially decide which one works better for you It's our choose your own licensing or change your own Registration template and you can look through that so for now I'm going to click on osf preregistrations because that's the one I was Talking about the most I'm going to click create a draft And all that does is it really gives me the option of going through and Adding in all of the information. So this is the registration metadata again high level that you want to fill out title description contributors now it's important to note here Different permission levels if you want somebody to be able to approve And you need them to approve this registration before it becomes public You want to have them be an administrator It's also important to note that any associated projects with the registration Can have different permission levels. They can have different permission levels So if you have the same contributors But it on your project one of them is an admin versus on a registration or one of them is say a Read and write only That just makes it so that they can't actually approve this registration It will go on and be approved even without them affiliated institutions We've talked about that adding a license and this basically just takes you through all of the elements that you need to look at So study type Whether it's blinded or not sampling vary a variables analysis plan Everything all the way down to other it'll give you a chance to review before I get started And as I said After you filled out all this information I can't submit it now because it won't even let me click on this because I don't have some of the information filled out It'll give me the two options first when I click register It'll give me the option to embargo you can pick a date again up to four years from now But then it'll also send out an email to all of your admin on your project Asking them to approve they'll have 48 hours and then it will be auto approved. 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