scholarly journals Giving software its due through community-driven review and publication

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena A. Barba ◽  
Juanjo Bazán ◽  
Jed Brown ◽  
Roman Valls Guimera ◽  
Melissa Gymrek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Software Review ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Publishing Process ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Recent Editorial

A recent editorial in Nature Methods, “Giving Software its Due”, described challenges related to the development of research software and highlighted, in particular, the challenge of software publication and citation. Here, we call attention to a system that we have developed that enables community-driven software review, publication, and citation: The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is an open-source project and an open access journal that provides a light-weight publishing process for research software. Focused on and based in open platforms and on a community of contributors, JOSS evidently satisfies a pressing need, having already published more than 500 articles in approximately three years of existence.

scholarly journals Open Scholarly Metrics for the Journal of Open Source Software

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fenner
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Software Packages

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages published as open source software. JOSS started publishing in 2016, and has published more than 1,500 articles so far. ...

scholarly journals Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arfon M. Smith ◽  
Kyle E. Niemeyer ◽  
Daniel S. Katz ◽  
Lorena A. Barba ◽  
George Githinji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Digital Object Identifier ◽  
First Year ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Research Software ◽  
Software Artifacts ◽  
Merit System

This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism for research software developers to receive credit. While designed to work within the current merit system of science, JOSS addresses the dearth of rewards for key contributions to science made in the form of software. JOSS publishes articles that encapsulate scholarship contained in the software itself, and its rigorous peer review targets the software components: functionality, documentation, tests, continuous integration, and the license. A JOSS article contains an abstract describing the purpose and functionality of the software, references, and a link to the software archive. The article is the entry point of a JOSS submission, which encompasses the full set of software artifacts. Submission and review proceed in the open, on GitHub. Editors, reviewers, and authors work collaboratively and openly. Unlike other journals, JOSS does not reject articles requiring major revision; while not yet accepted, articles remain visible and under review until the authors make adequate changes (or withdraw, if unable to meet requirements). Once an article is accepted, JOSS gives it a digital object identifier (DOI), deposits its metadata in Crossref, and the article can begin collecting citations on indexers like Google Scholar and other services. Authors retain copyright of their JOSS article, releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In its first year, starting in May 2016, JOSS published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

scholarly journals Die Research Collection der ETH Zürich

ABI-Technik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-233
Author(s):  
Barbara Hirschmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Collection

ZusammenfassungIm Sommer 2017 lancierte die ETH-Bibliothek nach rund dreijähriger Projektphase die Research Collection, eine neue Publikationsplattform für die Forschenden an der ETH Zürich. Die Plattform vereint die Funktionen einer Hochschulbibliographie, eines Open-Access-Repository und eines Forschungsdaten-Repository unter einem Dach. Sie wurde auf Basis der Open-Source-Software DSpace implementiert und löste zugleich zwei Vorgängersysteme ab. Heute ist die Research Collection ein zentraler Baustein innerhalb der hochschulweiten Informationsinfrastruktur der ETH Zürich.

scholarly journals A brief introduction to Open Data, Open Source Software and Collective Intelligence for environmental data creators and users

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Hengl ◽  
Ichsani Wheeler ◽  
Robert A MacMillan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Key Aspects

Using the term "Open data" has become a bit of a fashion, but using it without clear specifications is misleading i.e. it can be considered just an empty phrase. Probably even worse is the term "Open Science" — can science be NOT open at all? Are we reinventing something that should be obvious from start? This guide tries to clarify some key aspects of Open Data, Open Source Software and Crowdsourcing using examples of projects and business. It aims at helping you understand and appreciate complexity of Open Data, Open Source software and Open Access publications. It was specifically written for producers and users of environmental data, however, the guide will likely be useful to any data producers and user.

Coordination and Social Structures in an Open Source Project

2005 ◽  
pp. 125-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Basset
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Open Source Project

This chapter tackles the issue of the distribution of work in an open source project through the influence of social relationships among developers. The author demonstrates that the concentration of code in the VideoLAN project —already pointed out in other projects—does not only depend on technical expertise but is strongly influenced by the nature of social relationships among developers. Face-to-face relationships have a great importance, as does friendship which can favor the circulation of advice. In addition to technical expertise, a second kind of expertise —the ability to be aware of who is working on what—determines the hierarchy within this entity that looks like a collegial organization. The author hopes that this work will help to reduce the hiatus between technical and social considerations on open source software.

Selection Process for Free Open Source Software

2021 ◽  
pp. 1013-1025
Author(s):  
David William Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Open Source Project ◽  
Free Open Source Software ◽  
Free Open Source

This chapter will discuss concerns a library may consider in selecting Open Source software. The author will review all aspects of a needs assessment, along with considerations for the sustainability of an open source project. Discussions about technical abilities, identify options a library might consider, installation and usability issues, and getting involved with an open source community. There are ways a library can get involved with open source software and contribute to a community without providing programming. Going with open source can help save money, but also help the library decide the direction it wants to keep its community engaged.

The unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Willinsky
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Economic Work ◽  
Intellectual Properties ◽  
Reputation Building

A number of open initiatives are actively resisting the extension of intellectual property rights. Among these developments, three prominent instances — open source software, open access to research and scholarship, and open science — share not only a commitment to the unrestricted exchange of information and ideas, but economic principles based on (1) the efficacy of free software and research; (2) the reputation–building afforded by public access and patronage; and, (3) the emergence of a free–or–subscribe access model. Still, with this much in common, the strong sense of convergence among these open initiatives has yet to be fully realized, to the detriment of the larger, common issue. By drawing on David’s (2004; 2003; 2000; 1998) economic work on open science and Weber’s (2004) analysis of open source, this paper seeks to make that convergence all the more apparent, as well as worth pursuing, by those interested in furthering this alternative approach, which would treat intellectual properties as public goods.

scholarly journals Open or Ajar? Openness within the Neoliberal Academy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Sanders ◽  
Simon Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Models ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Societal Context

The terms 'open' and 'openness' are widely used across the current higher education environment particularly in the areas of repository services and scholarly communications. Open-access licensing and open-source licensing are two prevalent manifestations of open culture within higher education research environments. As theoretical ideals, open-licensing models aim at openness and academic freedom. But operating as they do within the context of global neoliberalism, to what extent are these models constructed by, sustained by, and co-opted by neoliberalism? In this paper, we interrogate the use of open-licensing within scholarly communications and within the larger societal context of neoliberalism. Through synthesis of various sources, we will examine how open access licensing models have been constrained by neoliberal or otherwise corporate agendas, how open access and open scholarship have been reframed within discourses of compliance, how open-source software models and software are co-opted by politico-economic forces, and how the language of 'openness' is widely misused in higher education and repository services circles to drive agendas that run counter to actually increasing openness. We will finish by suggesting ways to resist this trend and use open-licensing models to resist neoliberal agendas in open scholarship.

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