10 non-trivial things GitHub & friends can do for science | sciforge

"This year GitHub, FigShare and Mozilla ScienceLab introduced the minting of DOIs for software. It’s worth to mention that Zenodo is part of the game with less marketing rumble. Probably the latest blog post from Arfon Smith (GitHub) will boost the number of software publications so that software may become more citable, thus may become part of the scientific tradition and may address open reproducibility issues. So it’s one of the best things this year that key players like GitHub, FigShare, Mozilla ScienceLab, and Zenodo allow the labelling of software with DOIs. The recognition of this topic gets a different dimension. That’s great! ..."