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The Global Health Network, South Africa, and the Center for Open Science recently joined forces to bring an online webinar on reproducible statistics to the students and faculty of University of Cape Town. It was great for us at the Center for Open Science to meet health researchers from the University of Cape Town and we hope to collaborate again in the future.
 
The Center for Open Science is a non-profit science and technology start-up working to promote openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. We provide free services to researchers and research groups to help align research behavior with research values such as transparency and collaboration. Our approach is to help researchers embrace openness through technology, training, and new incentives. Some of the highlights of our free services include:
 
Technology
The Open Science Framework is a free, open source online platform designed to support research data management. The Open Science Framework is an integrated and collaborative environment that connects the tools that researchers use today, including Dropbox, Dataverse, Google Drive, and more. Manage your projects, collaborate with other researcher, maintain version control, control privacy, archive and share your data.
 
Training
Free statistical and methodological consulting is available, focussed on improving the rigor and reproducibility of scientific research using open tools, methods, and workflows. One-on-One consulting services for researchers are available via email (stats-consulting@cos.io) or by appointment over Skype or Google Hangouts. We also offer free online and on-site workshops on topics related to reproducible research and good statistical practices. Recordings of workshops and related materials are available on the Stats Consulting OSF Project.
 
Incentives
The Preregistration Challenge is a campaign where one thousand researchers will win $1,000 each for publishing results of preregistered research, which increases the credibility of hypothesis testing by confirming in advance what will be analyzed and reported.
 
These are just some of our free services. If you are interested in learning more please get in touch at contact@cos.io.