Strategies for biomedical software management, sharing, and citation

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2640v1
Subject Areas
Bioinformatics, Science Policy
Keywords
software sharing, open source, open science, software citation
Copyright
© 2016 Katz et al.
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Katz DS, Niemeyer KE, Smith AM. 2016. Strategies for biomedical software management, sharing, and citation. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2640v1

Abstract

This document is an open response to the NIH Request for Information (RFI): Strategies for NIH Data Management, Sharing, and Citation, Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-015, written by the leaders of the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group from its inception in mid-2015 through today. This group produced a set of Software Citation Principles and related discussion, which are the basis for this document. Here, we describe research software, summarize the software citation principles, discuss open issues related to software citation, and make recommendations to the NIH.

Author Comment

This document is an open response to the NIH Request for Information (RFI): Strategies for NIH Data Management, Sharing, and Citation, Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-015