About Continuous Science Foundation
Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) is a grassroots, community-driven organisation that brings together researchers, tool builders, publishers, and standards groups to support modular, continuous ways of publishing research. Science moves faster when communities have shared language, shared standards, and shared infrastructure.
CSF is a Canadian non-profit registered as a charity that supports efforts to change how scientific research is shared, published and reused. It also operates under the 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship of Rapid Science. We advance open, machine-readable science built to evolve.
What We Do:
We help the research ecosystem move from monolithic publishing to modular and interoperable workflows. Our work includes:
Convene diverse groups to collaborate and solve shared scientific communication challenges
Host and facilitate working groups focused on shared momentum
Coordinate the development of open standards
Support pilots that demonstrate new modular workflows
Produce resources, summaries, and roadmaps that help guide adoption of sharing science in a modular way
Our Recent Collaborations
Building a Movement: Meeting
In May 2025, the Continuous Science Foundation brought 22 visionary thinkers—researchers, tool builders, funders, and open science advocates, from around the world to Banff, Alberta. At its core, the workshop confronted a fundamental disconnect: the way we conduct science has changed, but the way we communicate it has not. Research today is iterative, computational, and collaborative. Yet, our outputs are still largely static PDFs, siloed data, and disconnected repositories.
The workshop invited participants to break away from these conventions and imagine a communication ecosystem that matches the pace and complexity of modern science. This unique gathering sparked something powerful: a new movement called Composable Science. The full meeting summary is available here.
Standards Meeting
From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing, in partnership with openRxiv a diverse group of invited participants work together on a federated reference architecture.
Together developing OXA: Open Exchange Architecture, a shared community standard for moving scientific content across authoring environments.
Using scientific content and connected authoring tools, the group collaborated to resolve priority technical gaps and to build towards interoperability for the whole scientific publishing ecosystem. The groundwork for machine readable and modular research publishing. The full meeting summary is available here.
How We Work:
Our approach is collaborative, community first, and grounded in real use cases. We create space for people to work together, solve problems, prototype solutions, and build shared reference architectures. Every output is open and available.
We focus on:
Work that reduces friction for real researchers
Prototypes that show what works in practice not theory
Bringing diverse organizations into the same conversation
Open decision making, community-led governance, clear documentation
Our Advisory Council
This council provides guidance, oversight, and long term vision for the organization. Members represent a range of expertise in open science, publishing, research culture, metadata standards, and tool building. They help ensure that CSF stays aligned with community needs and emerging opportunities.
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Rowan Cockett, PhD
Co-founder & Advisor
Rowan Cockett co-founder of Curvenote, where he leads efforts to transform scientific communication with modular, interactive tools.
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Tracy Teal, PhD
Advisor
Tracy Teal, CEO of openRxiv, home of bioRxiv and medRxiv, advancing how researchers share groundbreaking science with the world. -
Lindsey Heagy, PhD
Advisor
Lindsey Heagy, Assistant Professor in the Department of EOAS at the University of British Columbia and contributor open source projects. -
Courtney Babott
Co-founder & External Advisor
Courtney Babott co-founder of Wildly Open, a consultancy that helps organizations embrace change through creative strategy and marketing. -
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Announcing Soon
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