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  "name": "Center for Open Science",
  "description": "The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. It promotes an open exchange of ideas to accelerate scientific progress, envisioning a future where research processes, content, and outcomes are openly accessible by default.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-07-19T00:02:35.579Z",
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    "target_markets": "Academic researchers, scientific institutions, scholarly publishers, funding bodies, policymakers, and the broader scientific community.",
    "employee_count": "Not specified in the provided text.",
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      "Status Quo: Continuing with traditional, often siloed, research practices that may contribute to issues of reproducibility and slow knowledge dissemination."
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      "Institutional repositories: University or institutional platforms that house research outputs for compliance and preservation, but may lack the collaborative features or broader community focus of OSF"
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