The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the Center for Open Science, Inc. $595,939 on November 1, 2026, to pioneer structured outcome reporting as a model of scientific communication under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070).
The award funds development of workflows and tools that connect registered research plans, outputs (data, materials, and code), and outcomes following FAIR principles throughout the research lifecycle. The project delivers structured guidance at the moment of analysis, enabling researchers to document outcomes in real-time while reducing reporting burden and improving metadata quality. The intervention targets the critical phase between data analysis and paper authoring, where negative and null results face abandonment. By providing just-in-time documentation workflows that guide researchers to compare actual outcomes against registered plans, the project preserves research work for reuse even when it remains unpublished, addressing publication bias through prospective open science practices.
Performance runs through October 31, 2029, with work performed in Charlottesville, Virginia.