Sign in Through Your Institution
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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.
Creating a New OSF Account With Your Institution
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. Look for your institution in the Select your institution dropdown.
If your institution does not appear in this list, see the instructions below for Affiliating With An Institution Not In The List.
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 OSF Account With an Institution Not in the Dropdown List
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 Normal OSF Account 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.
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 you 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. If your institution does not appear in the Select your institution dropdown on the login page, simply login to OSF using your institutional email as the username and your existing OSF password. In this case, affiliation with your institution will be based on the email rather than using the institution's own login credentials.
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.