Guest Post - Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-01-21

Summary:

"Software is essential to research, and is regularly an element of the work described in scholarly articles. However, these articles often don’t properly cite the software, leading to problems finding and accessing it, which in turns leads to problems with reproducibility, reuse, and proper credit for the software’s developers. In response, the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group, comprised of scholarly communications researchers, representatives of nineteen major journals, publishers, and scholarly infrastructures (Crossref, DataCite), have proposed a set of customizable guidelines to clearly identify the software and credit its developers and maintainers. This follows the earlier development of a set of Software Citation Principles. To realize their full benefit, we are now urging publishers to adapt and adopt these guidelines to implement the principles and to meet their communities’ particular needs...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/01/21/guest-post-citing-software-in-scholarly-publishing-to-improve-reproducibility-reuse-and-credit/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.software oa.citations oa.repositories oa.reuse oa.principles oa.recommendations

Date tagged:

01/21/2021, 09:12

Date published:

01/21/2021, 04:12