Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software

Scientific research relies on computer software, yet software is not always developed following practices that ensure its quality and sustainability. This manuscript does not aim to propose new software development best practices, but rather to provide simple recommendations that encourage the adopt...

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Autores: Jiménez, Rafael C., Sanz, Ferran, Crouch, Steve
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33094
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11407.1
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Open Science
Open Source
Best practices
Guidelines
Recommendations
FAIR
Code
Software
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spelling Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research softwareJiménez, Rafael C.Sanz, FerranCrouch, SteveOpen ScienceOpen SourceBest practicesGuidelinesRecommendationsFAIRCodeSoftwareScientific research relies on computer software, yet software is not always developed following practices that ensure its quality and sustainability. This manuscript does not aim to propose new software development best practices, but rather to provide simple recommendations that encourage the adoption of existing best practices. Software development best practices promote better quality software, and better quality software improves the reproducibility and reusability of research. These recommendations are designed around Open Source values, and provide practical suggestions that contribute to making research software and its source code more discoverable, reusable and transparent. This manuscript is aimed at developers, but also at organisations, projects, journals and funders that can increase the quality and sustainability of research software by encouraging the adoption of these recommendations.This work was partially supported by ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and CORBEL. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and CORBEL are funded by the European Commission within the Research Infrastructures programme of Horizon 2020, grant agreement numbers 676559 and 654248. The European workshops were supported by ELIXIR and organised in collaboration with the Software Sustainability Institute and Netherlands eScience Center. The workshop in Australia was supported by EMBL-ABR via its main funders: The University of Melbourne and Bioplatforms Australia.F1000Research201720172017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/33094http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11407.1reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésF1000Res. 2017 Jun 13;6. pii: ELIXIR-876info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/676559info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/654248© 2017 Jiménez RC [et al]. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/330942026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
spellingShingle Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
Jiménez, Rafael C.
Open Science
Open Source
Best practices
Guidelines
Recommendations
FAIR
Code
Software
title_short Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
title_full Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
title_fullStr Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
title_full_unstemmed Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
title_sort Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Jiménez, Rafael C.
Sanz, Ferran
Crouch, Steve
author Jiménez, Rafael C.
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Sanz, Ferran
Crouch, Steve
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Crouch, Steve
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Open Science
Open Source
Best practices
Guidelines
Recommendations
FAIR
Code
Software
topic Open Science
Open Source
Best practices
Guidelines
Recommendations
FAIR
Code
Software
description Scientific research relies on computer software, yet software is not always developed following practices that ensure its quality and sustainability. This manuscript does not aim to propose new software development best practices, but rather to provide simple recommendations that encourage the adoption of existing best practices. Software development best practices promote better quality software, and better quality software improves the reproducibility and reusability of research. These recommendations are designed around Open Source values, and provide practical suggestions that contribute to making research software and its source code more discoverable, reusable and transparent. This manuscript is aimed at developers, but also at organisations, projects, journals and funders that can increase the quality and sustainability of research software by encouraging the adoption of these recommendations.
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