# Open Science Framework Reviews **Vendor:** Center for Open Science **Category:** [Project Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/project-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Open Science Framework The OSF supports the entire research lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery. It provides project management with collaborators, and project sharing with the public. The OSF is maintained by the non-profit Center for Open Science. ## Open Science Framework Reviews ### 1. Best work place for data management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monish S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** The platfrom has some sorted and advanced tools for making the data well organised and managed properly. Tracking the work and the project in your organisation, that how much of your work has been completed. Handling and tracking of complicated tasks and projects at one location is quite helpful and gets easier with this platform. The documentation management has become so capabale in this platform, and shaing and uploading files on publishing platforms and data storing softwares is quite easy and efficient. The easy access to the files and documents created and generated under this platform is easy, as the software is cloud based and works on your companies server so it is easy to access it any time. BEst tool in the market for data analysis and researchers team. There is evena feature of accessing your emails and having the ability of sending mails by integrating the mailing feature with this application. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** Sometimes it has been experienced or seen that the pages of the website takes longer than expected due to poor internet connectivity and server down issue. The developer of the platform needs to improve the layour and the tool arrangement in this platform a little bit. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platfrom had helped us a lot in handling and managing multiple datasets and mailing data all at one location. Being able to manage all the project work and portfolios data at one place. Saving a lot of our time. ### 2. OSF is an important tool to ensure your research is properly documented **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** I used Open Science Framework to pre-register research studies, which holds me accountable when it's time to report results. I also like that it consolidates all my research questions in one place. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I wish OSF would automatically add information from other research sites like Research Gate. It would be nice to store all publications in the same place as my original hypotheses. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** OSF provides a place to manage and pre-register research projects. It holds researchers (including myself) accountable by recording the initial details of your project and ensuring you follow those procedures when analyzing your data. ### 3. New to Open Science? This is a great entry point **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paula L. | academic technologist for data, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** There is enough support and background to figure out how to use the various parts. The community is also robust. Also, it makes it possible to have a project "as open as possible" (to quote the Swedish National Data Service.) **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** Deceptively simple, yet it's challenging to be completely new to Open Science in general - and to wrap your head around its many layers. It's hard to change one's basic frame of reference, one's habit of mind, to first think about reproducibility when building a project. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a central place, with DOI utility, for teams to share their work with the world as well as among themselves. We used it to keep track of our projects' basic components and help everyone use the same project protocols. This is especially useful as we work with students who are both novices as well as short-term members of our teams. ### 4. Good platform for registration of Evidence Synthesis Works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vineetha K. | Assistant Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** OSF is one of the accepted platforms where researchers can register their review protocols. This is free and the protocol will be assigned with a DOI and can be set for public view. Most of the reputed journals accept protocol registration in OSF. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** The interphase for registration can be made user friendly. It took me a long amount of time to figure out the registration process. Screenshots are advised as regular instructions are not that clear. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am registering my systematic review and scoping review protocols in OSF. Since PROSPERO does not allow registration of scoping review, OSF is a great alternative I use which is acceptable for reputed journals. ### 5. I recommend Open Science Framework for researchers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** The Open Science Framework is great for uploading your research articles or proposals without the peer-review system, which might make motivational challenges. Once you upload, your can also share your research idea or perhaps collaborate. It is an essential integrated platform. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I have not encountered a real problem with Open Science Framework. It is an effective management tool that helps researchers implement their projects by going through different cycles of their projects. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** It is an excellent tool for researchers who want to share their research ideas with others. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Open Science Framework is a great management tool for sharing research ideas or proposals. The significant benefit of the OSF for me has been the pre-registration, which helped to learn how the scientific learning process works and how I can best advance the research in my area. ### 6. Easy to use pre publishing tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** Open science framework is greate for helping to stay organized and on top of things when it comes to publishing research papers. Additionally it is useful for keeping track of things in the more complicated process of research. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** Open science framework is still new and upcoming and therefore not widely used or even agreed that it should be used. This product should be more accessible and the research community should set guidelines to utilize this tool. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Open science framework is beneficial in that with it, researchers have a preset plan already with established hypotheses and can carry out their research and know it can be replicated because they already composed a document detailing how it can be done. ### 7. Unique pre-prints server that allow all articles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kira S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** You can upload all your articleswithout judges who unjustly deem your work unworthy of publication. All your articles will have a DOI number, a very important thing, because so it isn't just a deposit for yourself, but OSF give value to your works. On OSF Independent Research is really supported! You don't have to be supported by organizations, institutions or universities to make your productions known. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** Hasn't peer review version to upload and to have your work professionally evaluated. There isn't a journal with articles' official publication. I think an official OSF journal, in which are published certain articles selected among the most relevant ones, would be an interesting integration and could give a great contribute to the Independent Research. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** To all Independent Researchers: use OSF service, you'll not be dissatisfied and there are no impossible requirements to have. Your researches will be appreciated and you'll can share your articles everywhere with DOI! **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a pre-prints server where I could freely upload my work, but all the others I had met before required a favorable judgement of the revisionists. Now, finally, I found the right place where I could freely spread the knowledge, without having high people connections. ### 8. Very very useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabrizio G. | Customer Service Manager & Copywriter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** Arrange your files, keep them in cloud, share them with teammate it’s a simply way to use this application. I also appreciated the ease of use of your files and searches, always at hand and viewable at any time. You can also view any external projects that are assigned to you, so that you can edit them and maybe send them back to the sender. Really very useful. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** Sincerely there’s nothing I noticed as “wrong” in this platform. Maybe latency of files upload, but I can’t say it depends to OSF. Sometimes it seems complex which project you are following and you have to search for it among those in progress, then carrying out several steps before arriving at the desired project. Research, however, works well. Overall, nothing to complain about and I find it very useful for those who need such equipment. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** This open source platform is very useful for collaborations in scientific research. It offers everything necessary to be able to reproduce a project, verify it, modify it, fix it, update it and send it so that it can be evaluated and examined both by collaborators and by appointments and by externals if you make it public. Excellent platform for those dealing with these types of projects. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good storage of my files. I can save my important documents without lose them. Thanks to the large community that is registered, you always have the opportunity to compare yourself with others. They are all willing to help you if you encounter difficulties ### 9. Great decision on security and profitability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Merry S. | Sales And Marketing Specialist, Restaurants, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** It is an application that we use in the company to save extremely important data in the cloud, and when we need to modify some of the information or reports that we save there, this system has modified options, it is quite useful to reinforce the information security of The company, and even people, has a work screen very easy to work and that meets all the necessary requirements to make our office a more organized place, technical support or assistance is super attentive and effective. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** One of the errors that we get in the software is that in some intances they did not load or they were stuck, or simply they were stuck, a boy of the technical service clarified to us that this error could be due to the internet connection, however it I check the connection and everything was in order, in addition to this the files are sometimes deleted, or the modifications are not saved, but failures that happen very exporadically, so it is not something alarming. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** It is a really useful tool, to improve the security of your files since they can be backed up in the cloud and even if your physical equipment damages all the files will be saved, it is really useful in this sense, anyone who decides to use it is not going to regret anything. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before applying this system, if a computer was damaged it had to pay high costs in technical support to try to recover information, now thanks to this software the cost within each department was considerably minimized and the information saving part was greatly reinforced It has been so useful that it is unimportant not to want to work with him at all times, it gives us a lot of confidence, and it is extremely profitable. ### 10. Possibly one of the best in the market **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad J. | New Car Sales Specialist, Consumer Goods, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** I find it a very useful application to save data in the cloud and thus keep all records stored so that when it is required to modify something there is this, in addition to the simple and practical interface that makes it very easy to save any type of document with very easy Another aspect to highlight is its excellent compatibility with all browsers and with all types of documents which makes it easier to save documents **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** It really is a very useful and very complete application to save all kinds of information in the cloud, it has some failures when saving certain documents and to put names or connection failures when saving the documents they are deleted which is quite annoying because it means you have to rewrite it **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** if they could improve the storage system it would greatly improve the application and also improve the connection so that the application works better in low-latency networks so that there is better backup in case any document is lost there may be the option to recover it or restore it at one point previous to be able to recover lost files and not have to rewrite them **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since its implementation, it has facilitated the way to keep all the information of the company and thus maintain control with all the movements that make and all the decisions made in the company, without doubt one of the best applications to record information in the cloud ### 11. one of the best I've used **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisbeth M. | Recursos humanos, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** This application allows managing virtual files, has the function of sending through the cloud, and can be sent to other members of the company so they are aware of what is happening in the company. Its easy and intuitive interface helps to perform the work quickly and easily to maintain control of everything that is stored on the page. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I haven't found many flaws in this application, the content that is available should be updated weekly in research areas and some technical issues could be resolved. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** It is highly recommended for all those companies that require an online management system where all the projects and company data can be stored so that when something needs to be modified or fixed, all the content of the documents can be viewed with a simple click. Wherever you are, you can review the documents. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have obtained many benefits, among them one of the greatest benefits gained from implementing this software is the greater control and manipulation of documents stored in the cloud. This tool allows us to modify documents no matter where we are, as long as we have access to the network, we can verify and modify the data of the documents that are in the cloud. ### 12. open framework for research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oliver M. | Marketing Specialist, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** This is a great Research and Multi-Functional tool. As the framework allows everyone to work on it. Not only elders but even students could work and make there projects or do a research for there work. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I do not have much too dislike however the content which is available must be updated weekly for the sake of research and some glitches could be resolved. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** I would Likely recommend everyone for the research and collaborative work. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** the problem of collaborative research was the main issue that we faced and was easily solved with the help of this tool.The students could have wonderful content for their projects which is definitely beneficial for them. ### 13. Open science framework is amazing when you need to save time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** With open science framework our teams work more efficiently, we don't have to spend ages in conference rooms or reading neverending emails. Within the playform we can communicate with the right people. My inbox has never been more structured. With open science framework i can manage my teams projects, and anyone can see who has been working on what. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** i have not yet experienced anything i dislike so far, i am a fairly new user of open science framework, which is really enthousiastic about the features. The layout is pretty basic, i would like to see a layout which is more visually appealing, but my colleagues love the way it looks. Very simple, very structured. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** We were looking for the project management program. If you're in doubt: give open science framework a shot, you'll love it! **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time by not having endless meetings and reading emails that dont belong to my department. Managing projects where everyone can add comments or leave feedback. ### 14. Great product for sharing information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** Great platform for sharing science and knowledge based information. I would recommend it! **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I dislike the usability aspect of the design. Can be tedious to implement and address. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing information and have the knowledge shared. ### 15. Easily to use and user friendly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** I liked the ease with which the platform can be used. It is very clear and has many options. The support I needed was very helpfull. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** the only thing I disliked was setting up at first time. The positive thing in this was that I asked for some help to get used with the platform and the moderators helped me good. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** It does give a good overview of the workflow and I you find it hard to use the platform, just get in touch with support! **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped to get my workflow to a higher level, more professional. ### 16. High school students can even use it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** this was very user friendly and was used as a trial period for some of my students in our second chance program. It helped motivate and helped students create with ease and build their confidence in their writings styles and techniques as well as with software use in delivering projects **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** There wasnt anything major to dislike, occasional glitches but overall wonderful **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** I can imagine this would be great on a small and larger network. Its equally useful with a small group or business as well as a large one. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was great in a classroom setting because you can edit and control projects simultaneously ### 17. Great Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** Great to use especially when collaborating with other colleagues on projects ranging from just about everything. My use is for research and collaborations in psychology. **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I do not dislike this product or have anything negative to say. **Recommendations to others considering Open Science Framework:** It has many great functions such as collaborating on research and working and making corrections on sections being worked on at the same time. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaboration and research projects. It helps all of us to work on certain portions of a project at the same time and helps us to share ideas and make corrections as we go. ### 18. Great way to do research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Open Science Framework?** I love the ability to collaborate with other researchers from a distance **What do you dislike about Open Science Framework?** I've had one or two instances where the website did not load the information when I first started using this, but I think this may have been due to internet connection or user error. **What problems is Open Science Framework solving and how is that benefiting you?** This was used for collaborative research done with others. ## Open Science Framework Discussions - [What are open science practices?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-open-science-practices) - [What is OSF project?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-osf-project) - [What are open science principles?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-open-science-principles) - [What is the Open Science Framework?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-open-science-framework) - [What is the best way of giving this tool a great use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/27520-what-is-the-best-way-of-giving-this-tool-a-great-use) - [View Open Science Framework pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/open-science-framework/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-12+20%3A24%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e8bd21a2-3435-4d35-af36-592bcdc46740&secure%5Btoken%5D=02da299a1e64790bf120c4c6f7715c787255f6c3fecb08b38dfaaf6559189b0d&format=llm_user) ## Open Science Framework Features **Tasks** - Creation & Assignment - Due Dates - Task Prioritization - To-Do Lists - Drag & Drop **Projects** - Planning - Project Map - GANTT - Calendar View - Views - Templates - Methodologies **Resource Management** - Resource Definiton - Scheduling **Project Monitoring** - Baselining / KPIs - Dashboards **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Project Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Open Science Framework Alternatives - [Asana](https://www.g2.com/products/asana/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13,137 reviews) - [ClickUp](https://www.g2.com/products/clickup/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (12,149 reviews) - [Basecamp](https://www.g2.com/products/basecamp/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (5,354 reviews)