Costs and Getting Access
VU Amsterdam advises researchers to no longer start new projects in OSF. The project functionality will cease to work as of 19 February 2027. Any projects expected to be active at that time will have to move to alternative tools in order to keep sharing research documents with colleagues.
The OSF pre-registration and pre-print functionality will remain unchanged.
For further information, contact: osfadmin@vu.nl
How to get access?
VU Amsterdam researchers can access OSF at https://osf.io/. If you have a VUnetID, you can log in with your VU credentials. You can also create an account yourself.
Access for students
Students are also welcome to use OSF. Note that VU students might need to visit the Service Desk to enable MFA via SURFsecureID for their student.vu.nl account if they have not done so before. The procedure is explained in this document on the VU services portal. Secure sign on - MS Authenticator activation for SURF Secure ID has more information on how to register for MFA if you have not already done so.
Are there costs involved?
The costs for storing data in OSF are detailed in the Research and Archiving Storage Cost Model.
OSF storage has a limit of 5GB for a private project and 50GB for a public project. Note that it is possible to request additional (paid) OSF storage via the Request form. More information on available storage tiers can be found on the Supporting OSF Usage page. Another way to acquire more storage is connecting an alternative storage provider via Add-ons as described in Connecting storage and apps. The OSF storage caps page has more information on extending storage capacity.