Open access software: Our recent software repository collaborations | Discussions – F1000 Research

"Providing open access to data and software source code associated with F1000Research publications is a central feature of our journal.  To further facilitate open access to software, we are pleased to announce we have created an F1000Research collection at Zenodo and an F1000Research space within GitHub. GitHub is a popular software repository used by a number of F1000Research authors.  GitHub allows code to be widely accessed and shared, and encourages an open and collaborative approach to software development. The F1000Research GitHub space provides our readers with the full software dataset (source code and metadata files) that was provided at the time of publication, whilst the authors are free to continue developing and improving their software post-publication.   With each new software article published, we will fork the relevant software version into our GitHub space.  Each repository will be linked from the relevant article and thus we are able to provide our readers with easy access to the code related to each article.  Zenodo is a CERN funded repository specifically aimed at helping to make the long-tail of research data freely accessible.  We will be using Zenodo to archive data that has no specific structured repository and that cannot be viewed within FigShare.  Zenodo provides (mints) a DOI for each dataset and we will ensure this is present in all relevant F1000Research articles so as to link the publication with the dataset(s), and to enable the data to be individually citable.  As GitHub does not mint DOIs, we will also be depositing a copy of each published software dataset with Zenodo.  This means the software dataset will be given a DOI, which will ensure the longevity of citations and links related to the published software code.  We are looking into creating F1000Research spaces on other software repositories such as Bitbucket and SourceForge, in order to provide our authors with a wide range of options to develop, collaborate and share software.  If there are any other software repositories that you would like to use to host the source code for your F1000Research paper, please let us know!"