It is committed to the idea of open science and sees itself as a public open science institute for psychology. As a research-based support institution, ZPID conducts basic application research in the area of research literacy and user-friendly research support, research synthesis methods and big data in psychology.
The central, free-of-charge services at www.leibniz-psychology.org include the search portal PubPsych, the preregistration platform PreReg, the online software environment for data analysis PsychNotebook, the
open access publishing platform PsychOpen GOLD and the psychology repository PsychArchives.