Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today’s post is by Daniel S. Katz and Arfon M. Smith. Dan leads the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s journals task force, and is the Chief Scientist at NCSA and Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. Arfon is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software, and Staff Product Manager for Data at GitHub.