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Resources on this website
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Issues concerning research software
- The unsung heroes of scientific software
- Troubling trends in scientific software use
- Code Sharing is associated with research impact in Image Processing
- On best practices in the development of bioinformatics software
- Why scientific computing does not compute
- The computer scientist as toolsmith II
- The five stars of research software
- What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?
- I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now?
- The computer scientists as toolsmith
- The Ladder of Academic Software Notsuck
- Producing open-source software: How to run a successful free software project
- Catalogue of code refactoring patterns
- Version control by example
- Software reuse and readiness
Policies and politics
- Scientific infrastructure - House of Lords report
- A Strategic Vision for UK e-Infrastructure
- The allocation of science and research funding 2015/2016
- Encouraging a British Invention Revolution: Sir Andrew Witty's Review of Universities and Growth
- International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base - 2013
- Software as infrastructure
- EPSRC E-infrastructure roadmap
- Unlocking the clubhouse
- How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m
- Doing science properly in the digital age
- Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications - Finch report
- A historical examination of the social factors affecting female participation in computing
- Strategy for the UK Research Computing Ecosystem
Funding
Journals
- In which journals should I publish my software?
- Beyond the PDF
- The Journal of Open Research Software
- The Journal of Electronic Publishing
- Theory of Computing
- Digital Humanities Quarterly
- Journal of Machine Learning Research
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems
- Source Code for Biology and Medicine
- Algorithms
- Journal of Statistical Software
- Logical Methods in Computer Science
Legal and Intellectual Property
- Practical guides on IP issues from PraxisUnico
- Help with copyright and Creative Commons licences for educational resources
- Toolkits on intellectual property, confidentiality, business and employment law for tech start-ups and entrepreneurs by qLegal
News sites
Open data and open access
- New certificates launched to help everyone discover, understand, and use open data
- RCUK Open Access Policy: When to go Green and When to go Gold
- Science as an open enterprise
- Denton declaration
- EPSRC Policy on access to research publications
- How and Why RCUK Open Access Policy Needs Revision
- 10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientic Data
- The Research Data Alliance
- UK data capability strategy: seizing the data opportunity
Reproducible research
- An introduction to Docker for reproducible research, with examples from the R environment
- Trouble at the lab
- Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research
- The scientific method in practice: reproducibility in the computational sciences
- Open science code manifesto
- Challenges in irreproducible research
- The Importance of Being Reproducible: Keith Baggerly tells the Anil Potti story
- Toward Reproducible Computational Research: An Empirical Analysis of Data and Code Policy Adoption by Journals
- Credit for code
- Mining software repositories for accurate authorship
Research policy
- The allocation of science and resarch funding
- Standards of evidence for impact investing
- E-infrastructure: the ecosystem for innovation one year on
- e-IRG task force report on legal issues
- Certification: Mozilla Open Badges
- Science and Technology Committee report on Scientific Infrastructure
Research software engineers
Social media
- Social media for science outreach
- Holy grail or Emperor’s new clothes? An experiment on Twitter
- How we got 1000 Twitter followers
Training
Useful websites
- Stackoverflow
- Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse
- DataONE software tools database
- DCC catalogue of tools