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Publishing: Developing a categorization of journals that publish software papers, and case studies of alternative publishing mechanisms that have been shown to improve software discoverability/reuse #55

Open danielskatz opened 9 years ago

danielskatz commented 9 years ago

Developing a categorization of journals that publish software papers (building on existing work), and case studies of alternative publishing mechanisms that have been shown to improve software discoverability/reuse e.g., popular blogs/websites

mr-c commented 9 years ago

One example is F1000: http://f1000research.com/for-authors/article-guidelines/software-tool-articles

danielskatz commented 9 years ago

@npch has a list that he keeps of some journals that publish software paper, though I don't know if it is categorized.

mr-c commented 9 years ago

@danielskatz Great, though I don't have a meaning for the phrase 'Developing a categorization'. Do you mean an annotated / organized list?

danielskatz commented 9 years ago

I mostly meant organized, though annotated might also be useful

kyleniemeyer commented 9 years ago

Not sure if you want to begin such a list here, but here's one for computational physics and physical chemistry: Computer Physics Communications

kyleniemeyer commented 9 years ago

People here are probably aware of this one already, but the SSI has a list with some categorization: http://www.software.ac.uk/resources/guides/which-journals-should-i-publish-my-software

(edit: sorry @danielskatz, I just realized that this list is probably the one you were referring to earlier)

kyleniemeyer commented 9 years ago

Technically it hasn't actually launched yet, but Research Ideas and Outcomes will publish all research output, including software and data

kyleniemeyer commented 9 years ago

Regarding successful alternate publishing mechanisms, I can say that in my field one successful example is Cantera.

Originally it was hosted on Google Code but more recently migrated to GitHub, and although it hasn't ever been published in the traditional sense (i.e., there isn't a journal publication that documented its release) the combustion/chemical kinetics community has really started to embrace it in recent years—based on the frequency I see it mentioned in papers, at least. My guess is that its success thus far is due to two main reasons:

  1. The combination of hosting openly on popular repositories (Google Code -> GitHub) and a supportive developer and user community forum, and
  2. A vacuum in terms of available free/open-source software that provided similar functionality. Most people used (and many still do) Chemkin, which was originally developed by Sandia and shared openly, but now is sold commercially.
owlice commented 9 years ago

You might find this effort of interest: https://github.com/arceli/charter