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View article: Making Your DOI Work for You
Making Your DOI Work for You Open
While obtaining a DOI for your data set is a good first step, most destinations are more than a single step away. There are various reasons to tag data with DOIs – citability, findability, etc., but the minimum metadata requirements for ob…
View article: The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report
The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report Open
The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and combining archives of data. To address this challenge, we p…
View article: The Roles of Data Editors in Astronomy
The Roles of Data Editors in Astronomy Open
Introduction In 2000, the Journals of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)1 completed the adoption of electronic editions for all its journal titles. Writing at the time, Editor-in-Chief Robert Kennicutt asserted that “electronic publis…
View article: Journal Production Guidance for Software and Data Citations
Journal Production Guidance for Software and Data Citations Open
Software and data citation are emerging best practices in scholarly communication. This article provides structured guidance to the academic publishing community on how to implement software and data citation in publishing workflows. These…
View article: Asclepias: Software Citations Enter the Scholarly Literature World
Asclepias: Software Citations Enter the Scholarly Literature World Open
In September of 2016, the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) started to work on the implementation of first-class support of software. This work was started as a result of the Asclepias project, funded through a grant from the Alfred P. S…
View article: Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature
Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature Open
We present an overview of best practices for publishing data in astronomy and astrophysics journals. These recommendations are intended as a reference for authors to help prepare and publish data in a way that will better represent and sup…
View article: DOI in the IVOA: the VizieR implementation example
DOI in the IVOA: the VizieR implementation example Open
The DOI has become essential in the scientific landscape for data citation and preservation. DOI are designed with open data requirements: they are fully integrated in the web architecture, they provide a canvas of documented resources tha…
View article: Credit Lost: Two Decades of Software Citation in Astronomy
Credit Lost: Two Decades of Software Citation in Astronomy Open
Software has been a crucial contributor to scientific progress in astronomy for decades, but practices that enable machine-actionable citations have not been consistently applied to software itself.Instead, software citation behaviors deve…
View article: Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature
Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature Open
We present an overview of best practices for publishing data in astronomy and astrophysics journals. These recommendations are intended as a reference for authors to help prepare and publish data in a way that will better represent and sup…
View article: The "Paper" of the Future
The "Paper" of the Future Open
_A 5-minute video demonstration of this paper is available at this YouTube link._ PREAMBLE A variety of research on human cognition demonstrates that humans learn and communicate best when more than one processing system (e.g. visual, audi…
View article: Recognizing the value of software: a software citation guide
Recognizing the value of software: a software citation guide Open
Software is as integral as a research paper, monograph, or dataset in terms of facilitating the full understanding and dissemination of research. This article provides broadly applicable guidance on software citation for the communities an…
View article: A Software Citation Primer
A Software Citation Primer Open
A poster at RDA VP16: Software is as integral as a research paper or dataset for facilitating the full understanding and dissemination of research. The FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation WG journals task force, with representatives …
View article: The importance of software citation
The importance of software citation Open
Software is as integral as a research paper, monograph, or dataset in terms of facilitating the full understanding and dissemination of research. This article provides broadly applicable guidance on software citation for the communities an…
View article: Credit Lost: Two Decades of Software Citation in Astronomy
Credit Lost: Two Decades of Software Citation in Astronomy Open
Software has been a crucial contributor to scientific progress in astronomy for decades, but practices that enable machine-actionable citations have not been consistently applied to software itself. Instead, software citation behaviors dev…
View article: Practice meets Principle: Tracking Software and Data Citations to Zenodo\n DOIs
Practice meets Principle: Tracking Software and Data Citations to Zenodo\n DOIs Open
Data and software citations are crucial for the transparency of research\nresults and for the transmission of credit. But they are hard to track, because\nof the absence of a common citation standard. As a consequence, the FORCE11\nrecentl…
View article: Practice meets Principle: Tracking Software and Data Citations to Zenodo DOIs
Practice meets Principle: Tracking Software and Data Citations to Zenodo DOIs Open
Data and software citations are crucial for the transparency of research results and for the transmission of credit. But they are hard to track, because of the absence of a common citation standard. As a consequence, the FORCE11 recently p…
View article: Asclepias: Enabling Software Citation And Discovery
Asclepias: Enabling Software Citation And Discovery Open
Our goal is to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We are focusing on the needs of two of the most important roles researchers play in the scholarly ecosystem: authors of scholarly manuscripts…
View article: Asclepias - Capturing Software Citations In Astronomy
Asclepias - Capturing Software Citations In Astronomy Open
Long abstract for talk given at Metrics workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Abstract: There is general agreement that curating and preserving software products, and making…
View article: Asclepias: Enabling Software Citation & Discovery Workflows
Asclepias: Enabling Software Citation & Discovery Workflows Open
Our goal is to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We are focusing upon the needs of two of the most important roles researchers play in the scholarly ecosystem: authors of scholarly manuscrip…
View article: The "Paper" of the Future
The "Paper" of the Future Open
_A 5-minute video demonstration of this paper is available at this YouTube link._ PREAMBLE A variety of research on human cognition demonstrates that humans learn and communicate best when more than one processing system (e.g. visual, audi…