Popular open-science platform to stop hosting data and code amid funding concerns

Singh Chawla, Dalmeet

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Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.

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  1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla

    1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London.

The co-founder of a prominent open-science platform has announced that funding uncertainties have forced the site to make changes to some of its most popular features.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02598-y

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  • Correction 10 September 2026: An earlier version of this article erroneously stated that existing private files would be made public.

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