Open Science Community at UCSF
UCSF is now a member of the Bay Area Open Science Group, a growing community for Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. Learn more by clicking the link below.

What is open science?

Open science means practicing research in a way that enables others to collaborate and contribute, and ensuring that research data, lab notebooks, research processes, and published results are properly documented and openly shared to enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction. 

Topics of particular interest to the UCSF community include:

  • protocol sharing and pre-registered research reports
  • electronic lab notebooks for better documentation and sharing
  • data management and sharing
  • best practices for software code reproducibility
  • preprints and open access publishing

Resources for open science

To learn more about open science we recommend these resources: