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

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 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 currently under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative

FSCI 2023

Course site for Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute 2023. https://force11.org/fsci/2023

Joint declaration of data citation principles

Preamble Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a foundation of robust, accessible data. For this to be so in practice as well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in the practice of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly record. In other words, data should be considered legitimate, citable products of research. Data citation, like the citation of other evidence and sources, is good research practice and is part of the scholarly ecosystem supporting data reuse. In support of this assertion, and to encourage good practice, this is a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object

FSCI 2020

Course site for Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute 2020. https://www.force11.org/fsci/2020 (Materials stored in the U.S.

FSCI 2021

Course site for Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute 2021. https://www.force11.org/fsci/2021 (Materials stored in the U.S.

FSCI 2022

Course site for FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute 2022. https://www.force11.org/fsci/202

FSCI 2023

Course site for Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute 2023. https://force11.org/fsci/2023

FORCE11 Scholarly commons webinar 20171208

Materials (slides, notes, audio recording, video recording) from an interactive webinar on the activities of the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group on Friday, December 8th at 9am PST.  The working group has been considering the question:  Are we ready to define the scholarly commons?   The working group and its steering committee has been active for 2 years and recently presented at the FORCE2017 conference in Berlin. During the webinar we would like to... give an overview of results and discussion of the sessions in Berlin; share where each of our 4 subgroups/themes stand and discuss with you where to go next, with concrete future actions in which you can participate; collect your input and have a round of open discussions. More information on the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons initiative:  web: https://scholarlycommons.org/ twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholrlyCommons  forum: http://www.force11.org/scholarly-commons/discussion-forum email: [email protected] preprint :The Scholarly Commons - principles and practice to guide research communication: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C2XT </ul