OSF Institutions

OSF Institution is a pay-for-service tool for universities, and research institutes to house, aggregate, and develop a community among their researchers. If you think you may be associated with an institution on the OSF please check first by searching for your institution here: https://osf.io/institutions. For more information on finding your institution please visit: Find institution

If you found your institution and are interested in using this tool please see our help guides below, along with our sneak peek explanation of each article. 


  • OSF Institutions: Solving The Challenge of Institutional Collaboration And Research: A general introduction to the benefits of the OSF and benefits of OSF institutions 
  • View Institutional Landing Page: Institutional landing pages aggregate all public OSF content affiliated with an institution. Search through a landing page to view OSF projects and registrations taking place at/with a given institution.
  • Sign in Through Your Institution: If your institution has worked with the Center for Open Science to create a dedicated institutional OSF landing page, you can use your university sign-in credentials to connect to the OSF.
  • Connecting to OSF Via Single Sign-on (SSO): This article provides general information about the Center for Open Science’s Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On (SSO) integration for organizations that have become Institutional Members. 
  • Affiliate an OSF Project With an Institution: This article will show you how to affiliate your research on the OSF with your institution. Affiliating your research enhances transparency, fosters collaboration, and increases the visibility of your work.
  • Affiliate an OSF Registration with an Institution: If the project is not affiliated with an institution, or you want to modify the inherited affiliation, you can update/add institutional affiliations to your registration via the registration's "Settings" page.
  • I can’t find my institution: Institutional login is available for affiliates of current OSF institution members.  If you previously used institutional login to access the OSF and do not have an alternative login method setup, you can use the following steps.

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