A Science Funding System Beyond the Linear Model

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

Center for Open Science

At the Center for Open Science, our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. Promoting these practices within the research funding and publishing communities accelerates scientific progress

System: Formalizing Science: From Open Corpus to Computable System

‍Open access made much of the scientific record openly available. An enormous opportunity now exists to make it computable and systemic.

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Rethinking AI for Science Funding

As science stands at an inflection point, how do we organize capital to shape the future of discovery?

The Research Nexus vision for a more connected scholarly community

Crossref envisions “a rich and reusable open network of relationships connecting research organizations, people, things, and actions; a scholarly record that the global community can build on forever, for the benefit of society”. This Research Nexus expands on the importance of research objects being persistently and uniquely identified. The scholarly community has an established practice of connecting things such as citations to others’ work and it is increasingly critical to identify relationships beyond citations, bringing together published work, unpublished work, institutions, individuals, and identifying the actions that they take e.g., funding, publishing, creating, modifying, citing, and sharing. The Research Nexus brings together metadata and relationships to build a joined-up picture of the scholarly ecosystem and helps everyone identify these relationships and how they change through time. This vision is possible if all parts of the scholarly ecosystem (and beyond) work together, including various scholarly infrastructure organizations.

The Scientific Contribution Graph: Automated Literature-based Technological Roadmapping at Scale

Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. Scientific contributions are rarely developed in isolation, but build upon prior contributions, such as problem framings, experimental methods, and empirical findings. Understanding these prerequisite relationships is important for studying scientific progress, and for automated scientific discovery systems that must reason about which existing capabilities can be used to develop new ones (e.g. Lu et al., 2024; Jansen et al., 2025b; Baek et al., 2025).

Continuous Science Foundation | Transform Science Together—Get Involved

Explore how the Continuous Science Foundation promotes open, continuous, and collaborative scientific research through innovative tools, standards, and community support.

The Minimum Viable Scientific Record

The open science movement does not lack a shared vision. Decades of declarations, statements of principle, and calls to action have failed to put that vision into practice. This essay proposes a minimum viable scientific record (MVR) that would make the open science vision possible, and asks funders to make operating on it a condition of their money.

From Grants to Portfolios: Index Logic for Science

How science can learn from capital markets to coordinate diversity, measure progress, and turn discovery into a public portfolio.

Freemium the Registry

Laurie Voss on an open source funding model

Why SCI PHI, why now?

At a critical inflection point for science, we're launching an editorial project to explore how visionary philanthropy enables the breakthrough science that will define the 21st century.

A budding discipline around how science gets read and judged - Aris

Scholarly publishing spent thirty years arguing about access. It has barely begun arguing about what readers do with the paper once they have it. At Aris we call that second argument scholarly interface design. Mike Morrison's community calls it ScienceUX. Either way it is becoming a field, and here is why it is worth your attention.

Open Science Foundation

Advancing science through openness