Journal of Open Source Science

The home of open-source science.

Experiments you can inspect, repeat and build on.

Think GitHub for scientific experiments. Submit a new paper or ingest an existing one, then connect its claims to the methods, data, analysis and every repetition or extended paper that follows.

Paper workflow
A paper passes viability assessment, is reproduced and extended, then its evidence is analysed.
  1. Paper
  2. Viability
  3. Reproduce
  4. Extend
  5. Evidence
  6. Analysis

A result is a starting point.

A scientific result becomes more useful when others can inspect the method, repeat the experiment and compare what happened. The record brings those pieces together, so the next researcher can follow the evidence and take the work further.

Inspect the work.

Follow the question through its methods, data and analysis.

Compare the evidence.

Examine repeated results, differences and recorded limitations.

Build on the record.

Use the methods and evidence to shape the next experiment.

Open to read. Free to submit.

Every paper and its evidence is open to read. Submission is free.

Read the access policy