OSF Guides

Having trouble or don’t know where to start? These articles will walk you through how to navigate and use the OSF.

Recent Updates

Updated on: Oct 05, 2018

Create Components

Components are like sub-projects that help you organize different parts of your research. Components have their own privacy settings, contributors, wiki, add-ons, and files.

Manual Creating and Managing Projects

Component Create Manage organize research Subproject
Updated on: Oct 05, 2018

Create a Project

This article will show you how to create an OSF project. Projects are the largest form of categorization that the OSF supports. A project can be an experiment, a lab group, or a paper—anything that has contributing members and files or explanatory texts/images.

Manual Creating and Managing Projects

Create Manage organize Project ProjectOverview research
Updated on: Oct 05, 2018

Set a Global Storage Location

Manual Managing Your User Settings
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

Affiliate a Registration with an Institution

Manual OSF Institutions
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

Add Supplemental Files to a Preprint

Manual Preprints
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

How to Make a Data Dictionary

Manual Best Practices
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

Organizing files

Manual Best Practices

Files how-to organization
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

File naming

Manual Best Practices

Files how-to naming readable
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

Delete a File

Manual Project Files
Updated on: Oct 02, 2018

Move Files

Manual Project Files