This is the OSPREY sandbox. DOIs minted here don't resolve, and the database may be wiped or overwritten at any time. Use it to try out submissions, edits, and other features without affecting production. The real instance lives at osprey.phalkon.io.
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About OSPREY

OSPREY (Open Science Platform for Research and Engineering) is a public-benefit catalog for open-source research engineering projects.

What it's for

A lot of research depends on custom hardware designs and specialized software that never gets formally published anywhere. Labs build them, use them, and move on. The next lab then goes and ends up re-engineering the same thing a year later. OSPREY is a place for these works to live in a findable, citable form and hopefully prevent these re-engineering efforts.

If you've built something like a sensor, a flow controller, an analysis script, or a sampling protocol, you can publish it on OSPREY and get a DOI for it. Other researchers can find it, use it cite it in their papers, and build on it. If someone adapts your design for their own research and publishes it back on OSPREY, we record that connection and track cittions so your original contribution stays visible and continues to gain credit.

The goal is to make open-sourcing a research engineering design feel worth doing. Right now the incentives mostly aren't there. OSPREY is trying to change that by making it easy to publish and maintain a project, and by making reuse visible and credit tangible.

Publishing takes a few minutes. Just fill in the project details, attach your files, and OSPREY deposits everything to Zenodo and mints the DOI. Projects are associated with your ORCID so your contribution shows up under your verified identity.

Why ORCID?

ORCID is a free, researcher-maintained identifier used across journals, funders, and institutions. Signing in with ORCID means your contributions show up under your verified identity. This setup combined with using zenodo also makes the archive robust. If anything were to happen to OSPREY, the archives and citation records will continue to exist far into the future even without our help, and still be attributable to you.

If you don't have an ORCID, registering is free at orcid.org and takes about two minutes.

Status

OSPREY is early alpha. You can check the roadmap for current progress and plans.

Who runs it

OSPREY is built and operated by pHalkon Industries LLC.