OSF Institutions


The following is a Table of Contents that links directly to specific sections within the guide.


Overview

OSF institution is a pay-for-service tool for universities, and research institutes to house, aggregate, and develop a community among their researchers. For more information please visit our OSF institutions section. 

What is OSF Institutional Membership?

OSF partners with research institutions to offer you the ability to affiliate yourself and the content you create with your organization. You get the ability to associate your research with your institution, others will be able to find your content through your institution, and the institution itself can more easily see what the research community is working and collaborating on.


All affiliated content displays the institution’s name and logo, and this information including the recognized persistent identifier for the institution is present in the data we share when you create a DOI.


Content is then all available on a searchable institutional landing page.



It is also filterable by institution in the OSF search pages.



How Do I Affiliate with my Institution?

If your institution has worked with the Center for Open Science to create a dedicated institutional OSF landing page, you can affiliate your account with the institution in OSF. Affiliating research on the OSF allows researchers to manage, collaborate, and share projects within their institutional community. In order to affiliate research with an institution on the OSF, your university-issued email must be affiliated with your OSF account. This can be done either by Creating An OSF Account Under Your Institutional Email or by Adding Your Institutional Email to your existing OSF account. You cannot affiliate with your institution without utilizing one of these methods.


Creating a New OSF Account With Your Institution

Click Sign up. Click the Sign up via institution button.



The OSF Institutions sign-in page will appear. Look for your institution in the Select your institution dropdown.



If your institution is in the list, select it and then click Sign in. 


You will be directed to your institution's login page. Enter your institutional credentials, and then you will be returned to OSF.

If you did not have an OSF account previously, you will be asked to read and agree to the OSF Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy. Then click the Continue button.

Your OSF account will be affiliated with your institution.

Once you have logged in to the OSF with your university credentials, affiliating existing projects is simple. Information on how to do this may be found Here.

Affiliating an Existing OSF Account With an Institution

If you have an existing OSF account using an email other than the one associated with your institution, you must first add that institutional email address to your account. Follow the instructions to Add A New Email Address To Your Account first. 

Once the email has been added, follow the same steps as you would in Creating A New Institutional Login above. If your institutional email is associated with your account, OSF will identify that account and affiliate with your institution instead of creating a new account.

I can’t find my institution

If your institution does not appear in the Select your institution dropdown list, but does appear on the List Of OSF Institutions, you must either Create A OSF Account The Standard Way With Your Institutional Email Account or Add That Email To An Existing Account. To activate the affiliation, you must log in at least once using that email as the username and your existing OSF password. Affiliation with your institution will be based on the email rather than using the institution's own login credentials.


If you previously used institutional login to access the OSF but no longer see your institution listed and do not have an alternative login method setup, you can use the following steps.


Click the Sign in button. The Sign in page will appear. Click the Sign in via institution button.



The OSF Institutions sign-in page will appear.  If you don't see your institution in the dropdown, click the I can't find my institution button.


The "I can't find my institution" page will appear.  If you have not yet set an OSF password, enter the institutional email address associated with your OSF account in the field provided and click the Set a Password button.





You will receive a Set an OSF Password email at the address provided.  Follow the instructions within the email; click on the link to navigate to the Set Password page. Choose and confirm a password.


You can now use your institutional email address and OSF password to login to OSF.  You can also set up additional methods for login to ensure that you never lose access to your account. 

How do I add/remove my affiliation from my content?

Adding affiliation to new content

When creating any content on OSF you will have the choice to add your affiliation or not. The default option will be to include the affiliation, as shown with a check mark.



If the work you are creating is not affiliated with the institution, you can choose to remove the check. This will not add the affiliation’s name or logo to your content and it will not be found in the institution’s page on OSF.


You will only have the option to add or remove your own affiliation. If you have contributors who are also part of an affiliated institution, they will need to edit the metadata as administrators to add their own affiliation.



Adding or removing affiliation in existing content

Affiliation information is part of the metadata for content in OSF. Adding or removing the affiliation is done through the metadata editing process. [link to metadata editing page]


Removing affiliation from profile

If you leave your institution you can remove the affiliation from your account in your profile [link to profile editing page].


Note that if you have not set up an alternate email address and password, you will no longer be able to log in. To find out how to set an alternate email address and password see [link to alternate email guide]


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