Generation R

Software Citation for Humans: The Citation File Format

Stephan Druskat on June 11, 2018

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Software is an important research product. It embeds knowledge. Thus, it should be cited like all other scientific products. But how do you cite the software that you use in your research?

Until a more suitable system for software citation exists, we need to leverage the one in place for papers and books. But finding the metadata needed for citation is usually harder for software than for papers. Therefore authors must provide it visibly and accessibly.

Concrete Advice for FAIR Software

Katrin Leinweber on June 11, 2018

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Software Citation

This post was originally published in German on the TIB Blog (March 21.2018)

Findability Through Persistent Identifiers

In addition to implementing the FAIR Data Principles for research data there is a need to support the sustainable development, use, and publication of research software. This blog post represents an interim status of the development of these competences.

In addition, it shall introduce a series of articles, which similarly to the already explained FAIR Data Principles for research data (Kraft 2017) will recommend: concrete examples and actions to scientific software projects, summarizes specialist literature (see the bibliography), and also sets goals for our own software projects and those we supports.