*Please read this message from our OSC member Xenia Schmalz: We need your support for Registered Reports!* Dear colleagues, Many of you have probably heard of a new format for journal articles: Registered Reports (RR). With RRs, you write a study and analysis plan, and submit it to a journal before you collect the data. You get feedback from the reviewers on the design of the study. If the reviewers approve of the methods, you get conditional acceptance. This means that the study will be published regardless of its outcome. Exploratory analyses can still be reported, but they will be explicitly distinguished from the confirmatory analyses relating to the original hypotheses. The RR format is good for science, because it combats publication bias. It is also good for us as individual researchers, because it helps us to avoid situations where we invest time and resources into a study, only to find out in retrospect that we overlooked some design flaw and/or that non-significant findings are uninformative, yielding the study unpublishable. You can find more information and answers to some FAQs about RRs here <https://cos.io/rr/>. With a group of colleagues, we would like to convince more journals to offer RRs as a publication option, along with the traditional formats. We have already contacted over a hundred journals editors in our respective fields (in my case, reading research/psycholinguistics). You can see a list of journals which have been approached and their responses here <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Responses/>. A full list of journals which offer RRs can be found here <https://cos.io/rr/>. As a next step, we would like to extend the initiative. First, joining forces with other psycholinguistics researchers who have been collecting signatures, we would like to continue approaching psychology and linguistics journals with a pooled list of signatories. We will base the letters on this <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Requests/> template. Second, together with researchers from other areas and fields, we would like to approach scientific journals with a wider audience: specifically, we are working on a letter to PNAS. The editors have announced that PNAS will be offering a new format, namely brief reports. While this could be an excellent outlet for groundbreaking discoveries, we would like to suggest to the editorial board that they also consider accepting registered reports, which will support high-quality hypothesis-driven confirmatory research. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/epsg2/>. Third, we are working on an open letter, which will be addressed to all journal editors, to outline the necessity and the advantages of offering Registered Reports. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/5shpk/>. We are currently collecting signatories. If you are willing to support this initiative, please let me know, via this google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rQd17z8M9sGHNOV9G1KcQGjCwewFlR_4oU4sKirHLig...>, or directly via email (xenia.schmalz@gmail.com). Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. Also, I would be grateful if you could forward my request to any colleagues or mailing lists if you think it could be of interest. Note that we're aiming for a broad audience, so researchers from any field are welcome to sign. Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Xenia ---  http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc
