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Discovery of scientific software

Jure Triglav on open science, scientific software, scholar ninja | 30 Jul 2014

TL;DR: An open API for science helps researchers discover great software. Install the Scholar Ninja extension and you’ll get recommendations (based on software citations) on-the-fly while browsing GitHub. A while back I wrote about an open distributed search engine for science, Scholar Ninja, and about how great it…

3 simple things GitHub can do for science

Jure Triglav on open, science, github, open science, doi, orcid, altmetrics | 11 Jan 2014

Introduction The topic “GitHub for Science” has been explored quite a few times before (1, 2, 3, 4) and with good reason: it is quite exciting to envision what breakthroughs in scientific collaboration could come from GitHub backed explorations, with substantial capital to invest and a formidable team to execute.…