A research institution framework for publishing open code to enable reproducible science
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Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Wellington, New Zealand
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Education, Software Engineering
- Keywords
- archiving, code, version control, programming, open science
- Copyright
- © 2019 Etherington et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. A research institution framework for publishing open code to enable reproducible science. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27762v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27762v1
Abstract
Reproducible science is greatly aided by open publishing of scientific computer code. There are also many institutional benefits for encouraging the publication of scientific code, but there are also institutional considerations around intellectual property and risk. We discuss questions around scientific code publishing from the perspective of a research organisation asking: who will be involved, how should code be licensed, where should code be published, how to get credit, what standards, and what costs? In reviewing advice and evidence relevant to these questions we propose a research institution framework for publishing open scientific code to enable reproducible science.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.