Welcome to OSF Institutions

OSF Institutions enhances transparency and increases the visibility of research outputs, accelerating discovery and reuse providing infrastructure, tools, and training to help researchers manage, collaborate and share their work. As an OSF Institutions member, gain access to tools and insights on OSF to accelerate open science practices. This community space contains resources and information for existing and potential members of the OSF Institutions community.

Membership Support | Training and Promotion Support | Swag and Downloadables | OSFI Community

Membership Support

Find everything you need to manage your OSF Membership

OSF Institutional Membership basics

OSF membership overview (benefits and terms); Security info; OSF brief for administrators; OSF Institutions infographics and flyers; OSFI service agreement; COS / OSF / OSFI

Getting started

Set up info; Getting started checklist; OSFI orientation (slides/video);

How-tos and FAQs

Questions regarding OSF, membership, etc.


Training and Promotion Support

Materials to help you promote and teach open science using the OSF

Training and Promotion Support

Basic OSF overview materials; videos; tutorials; training slides; language for grants and DMPs. Created by COS

Templates, Training Resources, Event Ideas

A library of potentially useful materials, created by users, all in OSF!

OSFI Community

Engage with other OSF Institutions Members

Community Events

Recordings and slides from past events; announcements of upcoming events.

Swag and Download-ables

Request COS and OSF swag or print your own

...Coming soon!


If you are interested in seeing help guides intended for general OSF users, please see our OSF support center Help Guides

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