 Welcome to OSF 101, another one of our iterations of OSF 101. These are monthly live trainings where we're helping out and trying to get you on board into the OSF. My name is Daniel Stieger. I am a technical community manager here at the Center for Open Science. The Center for Open Science is a non-profit here in Charlottesville, Virginia, where we try and promote open and transparent practices and research. One of the ways that we do that is we provide a tool called the Open Science framework or the OSF. This webinar is actually a onboarding to that particular tool. We're going to go home and we're going to talk about all the fun things that the OSF does throughout the research life cycle to support researchers. Now as we get going, one thing that I want to talk about quick is I want to get to know you. So first thing we're going to do is an audience poll. I want to know your familiarity with the OSF. I want to know if you do have an account. So Amanda has popped up a poll that will show up on your end. And I'm just going to kind of see a little bit more about my audience. Do you have an OSF account? Are you familiar with the OSF? So we have a few people who are more people that are slightly familiar, moderately familiar. So we're kind of in that middle range looking to learn. It's awesome. Fair amount of you do have OSF accounts. Fair amount of you don't, which is also fine. We'll walk through those processes today. Wonderful. OK, we're about 87% participation. Take your time. Answer where you can. But I'm going to get going. So we're going to cover a lot of different topics today. The point of this webinar is really it is a hands-on webinar. Popped up again. Awesome. It is a hands-on webinar, but I'm going to be moving pretty quick. So part of this is that it's going to be recorded. We're going to be taking some of the information and clips from these recordings and putting them on our support guides. But we're also really going to be trying to make sure that you have the tools that you need to be onboarded. So one thing that I do want to note is that a fair amount of the product team for the OSF, experts in every aspect of what we do, they are in the chat. So if you do have a question, make sure that you do ask that question either in the Q&A or in the chat section. And our team will try and respond to you. I'm going to be covering a little bit more detail than the previous two iterations of this particular webinar, mostly because, again, we're trying to create content. But I can't guarantee that there'll be a ton of time at the end of this webinar. But if we do have that time, I will make sure that we are able to answer your questions. One of the things that I do want to show you guys is this hands-on notes document. I'm going to have either someone on the team, or I can do this here, I'm going to post this in a chat here. This is an excellent resource, so I'm going to show you here. This is an excellent resource, so that it's basically an outline of what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about all these different things, but it actually has all the links and things that we're going to be talking about. So make sure that you save this resource. It gives you a great overview of everything that's going to be talked about today, but it also can be used for later, and it pairs well with the recording that's going to be coming out. Wonderful. Again, today is going to be a little bit of a hands-on demo, so I'm going to be bouncing back and forth between both a presentation and a live demonstration of the OSF. So if you do get confused and you have questions, make sure that you're putting those into the chat. So again, we're going to be talking about some of these basic elements of the OSF. We're going to be talking about your account, how to create an account, and look at your profile. You're going to be looking at how to discover resources. So how to use our OSF search tool. You're also going to be learning a little bit about registrations, preregistrations, and how do you plan your research? We're also going to be looking at collaboration tools. One of our more flexible tools, the OSF projects, we're going to walk through how to create one of those in detail and really how to leverage that tool for your research needs. And then finally, we're going to be talking a little bit about preprints. We're going to be talking about OSF preprints and some of our preprint repositories, and how that can be used to share your work quickly and transparently while connecting to some of your other peer review publications. Finally, we're going to be looking, and this is going to be kind of talked about throughout, the relationships between these. Theme that's going to be coming up in this talk is creating highways, pathways between your work. So how does your data collection phase connect with the rest of your publications, with your planning phases, with your analyses and your preregistrations? All of those things should connect. And by doing that, you're giving the best chance for your audience to find your work. So let's start from the top. What is the OSF? So the OSF is a free open source research platform that's designed to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle. So this is a very common graphic that we use, which basically just lays out those common steps that you would go through if you were a researcher and you're conducting a research study. We're trying to design tools that make sure that we can support open and transparent practices at each one of these phases instead of just targeting one specific phase. So whether you are trying to search and discover or you're locking in an idea or you're analyzing your data, you're publishing your reports and your manuscripts, we try and offer tools that can help you out, especially if you're gonna be sharing that openly and transparently with your community. So let's start off. Creating an account in a profile. A fair amount of you do have OSF accounts, but I'm gonna walk through some of the steps in order to create an OSF account and I'll walk you through what our profiles look like. So to start, this is if you just type in osf.io, that's all the way up here in this top banner. This is gonna take you to your main page here. This is gonna take you to your main OSF homepage. Now, in order to sign in, you're gonna be looking up here in the top right-hand corner, you're going to see a sign in button versus a sign up button. If you already have an account, obviously you would be signing in and I'll show you some of the different ways that you can do that, but you can also sign up using these different methods. I'm going to start by clicking sign up in that green button. I actually already have an OSF account surprisingly saying that I work here, but there are three different methods for doing this. I highly suggest if you don't have an OSF account, I would start with kind of more of a streamlined method, our basic method of signing it. So all that would require is your name, your contact email and a password. Agreed to our terms of service, make sure that you do review those before you get started and then check that if you are a robot and if you are a robot, I am on your side. A little bit here. Anyways, that's pretty much the most streamlined way of signing up for the OSF, but there are other methods of signing up for the OSF and these are also ways that you can sign in. These use external verification methods, basically remilling methods in order to verify who you are, your login method and how you can come back. First one I'm gonna talk about is your ORCID ID. Now, for those of you that are not familiar, ORCID IDs are persistent identifiers for people. They're essentially a code of numbers that relate to you personally as a researcher. Those are your codes, it's almost like a barcode for a person. You're able to take all those resources, so all of your publications, all of your data, all of your things, you can connect that back to one code. They're really great and especially if you're submitting for grants or any sort of publications, anything like that to show your history, this is a great way to kind of link back to those methods. So, say I'm going to use ORCID to log in, I'm going to start by clicking the ORCID ID button and this is actually going to take me to the ORCID website. As I said, this is kind of a relay method. As you can see, I do have an ORCID account but I can create one of those through their different methods that sign in through Google, Facebook, whatever. I just use my email and a password but if I'm able to sign in through this, what's going to happen is it's going to authenticate me through ORCID and it's going to send me actually back to the OSF. I am actually going to go back to our page on the OSF and we'll show you the other method before I sign in through ORCID. Now, going back to the sign up, we also have institutions. Now, a little bit misleading. This actually means OSF institutions. Our institutions are paid partners. These are groups and universities and institutions around the world who have signed an agreement to work with us. They basically, they're trying to aggregate all of the work for all of their resource members, all of their researchers in their universities or institutions. They kind of aggregate all of that work together but that's a paid service that our team can definitely show you more information about in the chat if you're interested. But one of the benefits of that is that anybody from those institutions can sign in through those institutions. So one of the ways that I can do is if I am a member of one of these institutions, I'm going to click on that institution button and I can find my institution on here. Now, this is a great way of telling if your particular institution is a member of OSF institutions, but you can scroll through this list and see if your group is on here. If it's not, then feel free to reach out to us. Maybe we can set something up for you and your team and we can talk through what that looks like. I am actually an alumni of one of these OSF institutions, Virginia Tech. So I'll show you kind of what that looks like on the other end. So I'm going to click on Virginia Tech and I'm going to sign in through Virginia Tech. Now, this is actually taking me to the VT login portal. So it's taking me to their site in order to authorize my username, my password, and then I can connect that back to the OSF. Now, I played around with this a little bit this morning and I'm actually going to go with my ORCID ID here and I'm going to sign in. And one thing that's going to pop up for me because I've already created my account is a two factor verification. Now, I highly suggest that you do this type of security with your work, mostly because two factor verifications, they make sure that you have extra security when it comes to your stuff. It only takes one person to log in when they're not authorized. But this sends a code basically to your phone through an Authenticator app. And it's really important to make sure that you do have those options. So right now I'm looking at my phone, I am putting in my code and I'm able to log in. As you can see, we are doing the Getting Started banner right at the top. So now that we have logged in, we know how to log in, let's check out what our profiles look like. The first thing that you're going to want to do in order to go to your profile is you're going to look up here in the top right-hand corner, you're going to see your name. Next to it, you're going to see a little dropdown arrow. I want to click on that dropdown arrow and I'm going to look at my profile. I want to click on my profile and this is going to take you to your public profile page. Now, all these profile pages are roughly structured exactly the same way. What you're going to see is any of your public projects or public components. These are tools on the OSF and we're going to talk about them a little bit in a bit. But only things that are public will be shown on this page. You will also see your public profile link. So if you want to share this public profile link with another group or another person, all you need to do is send them this particular link and this directly relates only to you. An important aspect of these profile pages are the social entertainment education features where you're filling out information about yourself. As you can see, I logged in through Orchid. So my Orchid idea is actually connected right here. But say I logged in through my email address. Once you've logged in through Orchid once, it's going to show up on here. But other than that, you can actually edit your profile information to put in any sort of information. All you would do to do that is look up in this top left-hand corner, and you'll see Edit Your Profile. Click on this link. Make sure it keeps doing that. And it's going to take me to my Settings page. Now, important thing to realize is this side column here where you have all these different tabs. Well, the first thing I'm going to look at is my profile information. This is where I can change my name. So say I get married and I have to rename myself. I can change that information here. And that directly relates to all my citations. So make sure that you are looking at the different citation styles and how that looks and how that comes out, because that's very important, especially as people are citing your work on the OSF. Looking at account settings, which is that second tab down on site, I can add additional email addresses. So as you'll see, I have an email address for my primary email, which is the OSF, which is the one that I log in through. However, I do have alternate email addresses. This is my Virginia Tech email address. I do have the option over here of making that my primary email address. Now, why am I telling you this? People change jobs. People get new email addresses all the time. And what you can do is, before you lose access to those email addresses, all you need to do is add your email address and change it to one of your primaries. So if you say move to a different university or institution, this gives you an excellent opportunity to maintain all of your work and still have login access to your work. If something happens and you're not able to connect your email address, that's fine. All you need to do is email support and we'll walk you through the process of how to connect and merge any accounts that you create. Default storage location is something we'll talk about when we talk about projects. I'm gonna talk about here. Any connected identities or can verified affiliated institutions, again, OSF institutions, not general institutions, opting into sharing, which is our preprint sharing service. If I wanted to change my password, I can do this here. I can also do that on the main login page as well, but this is a great way if you wanted to just change it here. Again, one thing I was pointing out is the security settings. If you want to disable or you want to enable two factor, this is how you're going to do it. Our last thing I wanna talk about is deactivating accounts. That's down at the bottom of this page. So if you request a deactivation, what's gonna happen is that's gonna be a different request depending on who you are, how many things you have on the OSF. And realistically, what that's gonna do is it's gonna send the request to our support team. Our support team is gonna look at your profile, look at all your information and tell you exactly what's gonna happen when you deactivate your account. Sometimes that looks different depending on what tools and things you have created on the OSF. They're gonna ask you to confirm whether that's what you want to do or not. And then from there, we can actually deactivate your account. Okay, so with that, I'm going to go back to OSF home. I'm gonna go back to my slides. I'm gonna talk about searching. So searching, when you are looking at the OSF and you're trying to create your first project, you're on the first stage of your research life cycle, you wanna evaluate what's out there. The OSF has thousands and thousands and thousands of prepent publications. They have registered studies and plans and data and analyses and all these things that researchers have been contributing and putting onto this amazing platform. But how do you find it? How do you discover it? So this is a you are here on the map of the OSF. So what I'm gonna do in order to do that, I'm gonna go to osf.io, obviously. And you really don't even have to be logged in for this, but it does help. I'm going to look at search at the top bar here. Search is one of the second tabs over. And if I click on that is going to take me to my search tab. Now this is a new page that we have completely refined over the past year or so in order to give more access to what we're doing. There's a couple of things that I really wanna show you here. Along the side column, you'll see filters. These will filter based on creator, gate created, funder, subject license. And they do vary depending on these other filters that are along the top. Now these other filters that are along the top, it's important to note that these are tools on the OSF. So projects doesn't refer to just general projects out in the world, how it's just generally defined. These are OSF projects. These are registrations, which are either housed here on our registries or in connected registries. Preprints, again, same thing if they are in a connected pre-print service. This is how you can search for those. Files on the OSF, particularly users on the OSF. So it's important to make sure that you're looking at the tools along with how you wanna refine those things. So let's test it out. First thing I wanna do is I'm going to try and search for projects. We're just gonna look at different projects on the OSF here. First thing I wanna do is I'm going to try and look for funder. Now, all of these things that are created along this side column are based on metadata. So when someone is creating a project or registration pre-print, they have the option of offering what is called metadata. That is data about your data, data about your project. It's very high level. And the idea is that it's exactly for this purpose. When I am an outsider, I'm going to look and learn about what you're doing. I can now look and narrow down how I wanna search for your things based on that metadata. So funder is one of those options. First thing I'm gonna look at here is I'm going to try the Project Financial Science Foundation. I'm just gonna click on the NIH, National Institute of Health. Now that actually took me down to 20 results. There's only 20 people on the OSF who have created that particular filter who are funded by the NIH. I know there's more than that in the world, but this gives an opportunity for those 20 people to show up on someone's search a lot faster. And then what I can do is just pick one of these things. That metadata is going to take me to one of these OSF projects and say I go up here that metadata tab. We'll talk about projects more in a second. This will actually show me some of the links and information about that project. So here you have a description of what that project is, quick overview. You have the contributors that I could have found based on searching, resource type. They actually didn't list any resource type here, but it could be a data analysis plan or it could be a particular file or any sort of those things. And there's a dropdown menu that you can choose from, but it does help refine those things. They didn't list that this is in English. Obviously I can tell that it's in English, but if someone say searched for only resources in English, this one might not come up, unfortunately, even if it is in English. They listed what the funder is and the award title and the award information. All of those things are valuable for someone who's trying to verify your work. When you click on a link, it'll create a new tab. So I'm actually gonna go back to my original tab here. That was fun. Let's start and we'll try and go back to the beginning. So say I don't like that particular search. In order to go back, I'm going to look here at the funder thing that I've created. So one of the criteria that I created. And if I wanted to get rid of that, all I'm gonna do is click that X that is next to that button. That takes that search criteria and removes it from my thing. So now I only search criteria is projects. I'm actually going to look for registrations at this point. I click a different tab. So now my one search criteria is registrations. I'm going to then go to subject. This is a subject that they have classified themselves as. And I'm going to click psychology, which will give me 34,000 results. All right. I want to narrow it down more than 35 or 34,000 results. I'm going to click clinical psychology, which will give me about 3,000 results, okay? So now my search results are compounding. I have psychology, clinical psychology, registration. I'm going to type in something now. Autism. Now I'm down to 129. I have now refined it based on registration, psychology, clinical psychology, and a search term. Okay. This is fantastic because now I have a very refined list that I can kind of work from. But what if I wanna share this list with say a PI, a friend, a colleague? I can take this, all of these search criteria are then found up here in my URL. So if I can take that copy, paste it, I can now send it in the chat to all of you and you can look at it and find 129 results. Important thing that I also wanna note here, I'm gonna remove a couple of these search criteria. So we can get back at it is badges. Registrations have open resource badges. Again, one of the things I was talking about is you wanna create highways between your work. So whether you have data, analytical code, materials, the more that you connect those things to one place, more opportunities that people have to find your work. So especially open resource badges, if I say clicked on data, and again, I'm an outside person. I have no preference in what I'm picking here. I'm just going based on what's available. I now know that on this particular registration, this link, I will have access to their data, their analytical code, their materials, their paper, the final publication that came out of this, and some supplementary materials that came out of this. That's really appealing for me if I'm gonna be clicking on a link because I don't have to go searching and going through multiple different search sources just to figure out what the data is that's associated with this registration or this analytical code that's associated with this registration. It makes it very appealing for someone from an outsider to find your work. All right, that was fun. I'm gonna go back to home and we're gonna go on to the next phase, 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 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 of the work that happens beforehand. It also kind of incentivizes people to, if they get a result that doesn't match what their plan was, 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. 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 gonna do. Here's what we're gonna analyze and how it's gonna 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 timestamp 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 one of those old-timey flip books where you have one version and then one page and one image and one image and one image 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 and 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, 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 things change in your research lab, you have to make changes, some form, some disciplines that pre-registration just isn't super practical, especially for some of the 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 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 publish it before you do. Obviously that doesn't work very well in this idea of pre-registration. If I submit this publicly, someone can just take my work and make a publish before me. So obviously we live in the real world. We would love if you shared your work publicly beforehand. You get a timestamp with that, but we do also offer the idea of embargoing. So embargoing is temporarily making a registration private up to four years after you've submitted it. This gives you time in order to conduct your actual experiment. You've submitted a timestamp, but you can conduct your experiment, finish your analysis, 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. Now you also made me wondering, what does that look like on the OSF? I'll show you right here. So here is an 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 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. 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 gonna share your work with a publication or a registration, you're gonna wanna 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 any additional versions of that registration, you'll see the latest version where they'll get the reason for the update and what sections were actually updated in comparison. Again, looking at that flip book. 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 thing I wanna do is go up to this top section and look at add new. I'm going to click and it's going to 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 wanna use that to create a snapshot of 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 for your registration into whatever template you'd like to use. The other aspect is if I wanna 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 link that'll help you essentially decide which one works better for you and it's our choose your own licensing or change your own registration template and you can look through that. So for now, I'm gonna click on OSF preregistrations because that's the one I was talking about the most. I'm gonna 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 wanna 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 a 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, variables, analysis plan, everything all the way down to other. It'll give you a chance to review before it gets 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, if not. Now, again, I'm running a little bit behind, but that's okay. We're gonna talk about OSF projects. OSF projects are a very flexible tool that can be used essentially throughout the entire research lifecycle. We talked about your planning, your conducting, your reporting, whether you're analyzing your data or you are planning out a hypothesis, OSF projects are a really great way of kind of getting that started. I would describe OSF projects as a really, really great way of creating project management around specific levels of a research initiative. So if you think about how you organize your research projects in your files, your folders, in your own storage providers, you typically have some sort of hierarchy. Top level, you could have your research lab, but then you have a folder for a research initiative, research initiative to a grant project, something like that. And inside of that, you have additional folders. This just gives you an opportunity to create a project management idea for each one of these folders where you can share and coordinate with colleagues, whether you're creating a hypothesis all the way through establishing your protocol. Now on the OSF, that kind of looks a little bit interesting where we have kind of this parent-child structure of projects. It's almost like one of those nesting dolls type of ideas where at the top level, you have a OSF project where this is the example of your project level in major one, but then you have sub-projects where on the OSF, those are called components. So here you'll see main title for the main one, but then I've created components for each one of these sub-projects. And that kind of works in that same structure. In each one of these components, you will see a section for hypothesis, data collection protocols. Those components really help you organize your structure and also helps you kind of work around some storage restrictions as well. I'm actually gonna go back and I'm gonna show you a little bit of how that works on the OSF. So if I'm gonna create an OSF project, the first thing I'm gonna do is go to osf.io. I'm going to click on the Create New Project or we get going. I wanna talk about our dashboard really quick. This is a great way for you to quickly look through all of your projects. So I have a ton of projects on the OSF and if I'm gonna look for any of my resources and the things all I need to do is go to osf.io, look at our dashboard which is right down, search for what I want based on contributors or the title and it'll pop it up very quickly. So it's a very great way of kind of expediting your work. Anyways, to create a project, you wanna start with creating a new OSF project. This is the green button that's here. Click this. This gives me the opportunity to pop up window to show what title I would like. So I'm just going to put test project. Again, these affiliations are associated with OSF institutions. I'm going to remove those. Storage locations, this is very important, especially if you are in different regions of the world. We offer four different storage locations. Now, don't look for your particular country. Think about regions and what you're working on. The point of this is to really get around storage restrictions based on region of the world. So like, say the EU, they do have how restrictions and how data can be used and stored. One of the important ones that you can do is you can store your work in Germany and that will really help you get around some of those storage restrictions. In our case, I'm just gonna say, this is stored in the United States and click create. I have the option of working here or going to the project and we go to project. Awesome. So now, this is my test project. All test projects, when they come in, they are immediately private. I have the option of making this public or private at any time. And again, I can delete this at any time. That's why I'm doing a little bit more of a demo here, but it provides a lot more flexibility than registrations or registrations. They can only be withdrawn and your metadata still remains, whereas project can be completely deleted and no one will ever know exists. Title up top, all you need to do to change it is click the title and make the edits and click the green button for contributors. So contributors on the OSF, it's a great way of kind of collecting all of the people who are associated with your project into one place so that you can all work on something at the same time. To add a contributor, all I'm gonna do is go up to the top here. I'm going to click on the plus button and I'm going to search for a person. Now, in this case, I'm going to search for my colleague, Eric Olson who might not even be here, but that is okay. I'm going to click and add him as a contributor. Now, I have a couple of different options here. I can add him as a read and write contributor, which basically means he has the right to read and write on this project, but he doesn't really have the right to create. It kind of restricts some of the different things. I don't really have enough time to get into it, so maybe one of our product people can help and send out some of the differences in the permission levels and that's something you need to evaluate as well. But I'm going to add him in this case as an administrator. Say you are in a situation where you are a lab manager, where you're on a ton of different projects, but you're not necessarily on the byline of those projects. You are not on the citation. You can actually remove that person from the byline, but they could still participate on the project by clicking this button of bibliographic contributor. I'm gonna remove Eric from this and I'm going to click add. Now, this will add him to the project. He is not a bibliographic contributor, so if I go back to the main project here, you will not see him on this contributor line. You will not see him on the citations here, whereas if I go back and click on contributors again, I add him as a bibliographic contributor, save the changes, click save, go back to my main page. Suddenly, Eric is now as a contributor on the byline and he's in the citations, which is fantastic. Another element I want to talk about is file uploads. The OSF is a storage provider, obviously, but one of the ways that you can upload files is really to use a few different methods, but I tend to prefer the drag and drop method. So on my desktop right now, I have a folder. I'm going to take this folder and I can drag it and put it directly onto the OSF storage folder or I can go to the files page, which is located up here at the top, take that document and bring it all the way over here and also drag it and drop it in. I'm going to go back to the main page and I'm going to drag and drop this in, which is awesome. Now, all files on the OSF have the ability to be versioned. So now if I am, say, on my document as that uploads, I can make a change, as you guys are looking at my thing, I can make a change this to this document and I'm going to click out, make sure that that's saved. And I can upload it using the same title to this OSF project. Great news is that that now created only one version of that file that will pop up here and you will see that version render here as the latest version, but I go over here to the top right hand corner, I can look at versions, revisions, and I can see the original, come on, and then the new version. This is excellent for, especially for those who love to send emails back and forth, saying, hey, here's the latest version of this manuscript and then suddenly you're losing track of what that latest version is. If you keep the same title and you just make changes, you can see every single revision that happens. Next thing I want to talk about really quick is I want to talk about adding metadata. Again, metadata is key for having people find your work and connecting your work. This is very similar to the registration metadata. You can add whatever resource type you would like. So say this is a book, a chapter, a dataset, an event, you can make any sort of those changes and log that in here. This will be obviously in English, you can make those changes. And I can also add a description. Those are all things that people see when they're searching the OSF that'll help them find you quicker. Again, privacy settings, you can make this public and private at any time. If I say am a private document all to share a private version of my project with someone else, all I would do is click contributor. Say they are not a contributor and I don't want to add them to the byline of this project, all I would do is go to view only links. That is the same process for registrations. If I click here, click add, I have the option of anonymizing the template for our project and also sending out a version of this. This will create a URL for my private project that is anonymous. I'm gonna copy this here and one time I'm just gonna pop it in here. I can also send it to all of you here where you'll see an anonymous version. So all the contributors on this are anonymous. Now note that this doesn't anonymize any of the files that are associated with work but it does help you share your work with funders or anyone that needs to peer review your work that does not need to see who actually is the person who's running your project. One thing quickly I wanna talk about is add-ons. So we know that there are so many different tools out there that come to research. So we have citation add-ons, storage add-ons and the idea being that you can connect any of these different tools that you use, so say Big Share, GitHub, Google Drive and you can connect them to your OSF project. So to give you an example, I'm going to go to Google Drive and I'm going to enable that connection. Now it's very important that you go through and read how this actually works on the OSF and what that two-way connection actually looks like. So I'm gonna confirm it. This will create a successfully changed and it will create a pop-up down here at the bottom where I can configure my add-on. I'm going to import from my Google account. Click import and this will give me basically a rendering of all of my different files that are on my Google Drive account. I'm going to click the test one because that's the one I've set up for this and I'm going to click save. You'll see a little link down here that says success level. The file has been added to your content. I'm gonna go back to my main homepage here and down here at the bottom where that file tree was, you will see the original document that we uploaded to the OSF storage versus the Google Drive storage. Now, one beautiful thing that I want you all to remember is that anything that is stored outside of the OSF, so say I connected to a Google Drive and Amazon S3, anything like that, that does not go against your storage restrictions on an OSF project. On an OSF project, if it is private, it is five gigabytes. You have five gigabytes max to put on one of these OSF projects. But if it is public, you have 50. But anything that's stored on your Google Drive or external storage provider, that doesn't go against that limit, which is really a great way of kind of working around that system. Additionally, every component that you create will have its own five gigabyte, 50 gigabyte storage limit. So you can in theory have more and more and more. Now, one other thing that I really want to point out, a couple more, a recent activity. If you're an admin, you have access to seeing all of the changes that happen. So you can look back here and see them when I added the COVID document, I added a different test, I connected my Google Drive. You can see the timestamp version of all those things. Now it's not the same as registration, but it does show the recent activity and helps someone, say at a PI level, coordinate with everyone else and see what's going on. Another aspect that I really want to point out here is your wikis. Your wiki is basically a blank template for you to do anything you want. It is a text box. I've seen people use it to coordinate between team members. I've seen people use it as a syllabus if they're using an OSF project to run their course or I've seen lab managers use it as a way of ordering products. It's essentially a way of just coordinating with your team members. And it's also versioned. So you can see all those different changes as well. Make sure to add a description, a license to share how you want people to use your work. And again, if you wanted to add, say those sub projects, those components, you're gonna be looking here at add component or linking an existing project. And the process will be essentially the same as creating a project. I can add the contributors from my current project. I can also add the tags, but every one of those sub components will link back to this main component. It'll be found here. Now, running a little short on time, which is fine, but we're gonna be moving on to preprints. Preprints are pre-publications. The idea with preprints is that if you, say, aren't able to get your work published in a peer review journal or you wanna get your work out quickly, preprints are an excellent way of doing that. Make sure that you're checking with your peer review journal that you're targeting. Make sure that they allow for preprints, but a fair amount of them do, most of them do actually. So in order to do that, I'm going to go to home and I'm going to do this dropdown button and we can take a look at what preprints look like. Now, again, preprints are submitting a main script version of your project. In order to submit a preprint, I have a couple of different options. First thing I'm gonna do is I can either submit here with this green buttons, submit a preprint, pretty obviously, or I can go up here at that top button of add a preprint. Take you to the same link. Now, this will give you kind of a similar process as you would see with the registration where I'll give you a series of options in order to submit. Here we have services. On the OSF, we have a ton of different partners that we work with that are all discipline specific. So say you are a African researcher and you want to submit your work to a preprint service for African researchers, please use African archive, but do check out some of these different services as they kind of client tell what audiences you're looking for. For files, you want to make sure you are saving and continuing. Upload a file from your computer. In this case, I would just upload the COVID-19 documents. Author assertions, again, it doesn't like it if you don't actually fill out the full form, which is unfortunate. Author assertions, come on now. You're just gonna make me do this. Regardless, save and continue, continue onward. Author assertions, so do I have public data available? This is your ability to connect to an external source where you're storing your data. Again, creating those highways are highly important. Do you have a pre-registration? Do you pre-register on the OSF and you want to connect that to your preprint? This is how you're gonna do it. Take that link, make sure that you're posting into here and what that plan is. Your basics, you want to make sure that you label who the copyright holder is or who will be contacted if someone has questions about the copy, right? Did you already submit a peer-reviewed version of this? Is it already published? If that's the case, what you can do is you can take that DOI that was created and link it here. That gives the opportunity for anybody that finds your preprint to find the peer-reviewed publication version. Adding keywords are a great way of making sure people find you in searches, adding an abstract, help them figure out what you're doing. Disciplines, again, those are those filters that people are searching through when we were talking about the beginning. Authors, making sure that you are putting all the authors that are associated with your preprint on this service. Conflict of interest, any supplementary materials, again, connecting an OSF project is a great way of doing that for your preprints. Now, this, because I'm submitting African archives, they have different moderated services. Premoderation means that you will submit, it will be private, moderators will review it, and then they will release it when it becomes public. Post-moderation means that it'll immediately become public and then moderators will look at it and decide whether they wanna keep it on their service. And all I would do from there is click that screen button down at the bottom that says submit preprint. Now, you've gone through the full process. You've submitted a preprint. Let's talk about relationships. All of those things that you have created, those DOIs that are available on anything that's public on the OSF. So a public project, a public preprint, a public registration, those all can be equipped with DOIs or digital object identifiers. Those DOIs can be connected to essentially anything that you do. Using data site and Roar, we can connect it back to that ORCID ID, that barcode that is specifically meant for you. And it connects all of your work. The more that you are connecting and building those badges, all those different ways that I've highlighted today, those are all opportunities for others to find one bit of your work and connect it to the rest of that story. It's like the binding of a book. You're able to connect all those chapters together. And it's very important to do on the OSF. And we have a couple of different tips and help guides to help you out. Okay, I went super duper fast. I didn't leave a ton of time for questions. We do have a ton of resources that can help you. So we are obviously creating these video resources and this will be edited and chopped up and made sure that it is in the most accessible format for everyone. 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Now I talked about a couple of different fee for service things either pre-print services or OSF institutions and you saw a couple of the benefits of those, but if you were interested in learning a little bit more about those, please feel free to reach out to our team. We're really helpful and we'd love to talk to you about some of those ideas. Additionally, training is one of those things that we offer. If you want to have a training for your group, your institution, your whoever you wanna host, please reach out to us because that is a service that we also offer. I may have missed this in the beginning, but the OSF is a tool designed for researchers by researchers. So please reach out to us with feature requests, creative ways of using the OSF. Anything that you can provide to us is extremely, extremely valuable. Before we go, Amanda is gonna send out a closing poll. Please take a second and review this. We try and create new and innovative ways of doing these webinars. 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