Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana Samii

Research doesn’t begin with a published paper—it starts with a question, a plan, and a process that sometimes remains invisible to others. At the Center for Open Science (COS), we use the term lifecycle open science (LOS) to describe an approach to making the record of your work visible: research with publicly accessible plans, outputs (such as data, materials, and code), and outcomes that are linked and findable across the research lifecycle. Preregistration—the practice of documenting research plans before a study begins—is an important starting point for this connected research record.