Preregistration

Preregistration is the practice of documenting your research plan at the beginning of your study and storing that plan in a read-only public repository such as OSF Registries. Used primarily as a tool in earlier years to counteract biases and to register hypotheses prior to data collection, preregistrations now come in diverse shapes and forms to accommodate the needs of epistemic diversity. OSF provides many different templates, these include among others: • Standard templates (for confirmatory or exploratory use) • Systematic review templates • Template for qualitative research

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The questions asked in these templates help to guide you through all the aspects that are worth considering in your study, and are thus tailored towards the nature of your study. These can therefore be helpful, especially if you are new to preregistrations. But you can always deviate from these and upload your own file, especially if you feel that the templates are not entirely suited for your goals.