COSIG – The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

"Investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have. This open source project is a collection of guides written and maintained by publication integrity experts to distribute this domain-specific knowledge so that others can participate in forensic peer review.

COSIG currently hosts 35 guides and was last updated on 10 June 2026. Guides can be downloaded as individual PDFs. A combined PDF with all guides included can be downloaded here.

Suggestions to improve COSIG can be submitted by opening an issue on COSIG’s GitHub repo or by emailing admin@cosig.net. Before contributing, read COSIG’s Contributing and Code of Conduct pages."