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GitHub is now providing built-in citation support that makes it easy to add software citation files to a repository, and GitHub then uses this to let users know how to correctly cite the software. This will help software developers more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions, and once this metadata is stored in the repository, it can also be used by other members of the scholarly community to support citation in other ways.
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The French Ministry of Research unveiled the second multi-annual National Plan for Open Science in France, which squarely puts software on a par with publications and data in research and Open Science, and announces a number of measures designed to open research software and better recognise software development in research. See Roberto’s Di Cosmo’s very useful summary of key measures, including a clear recommendation to make research software available under an open source licence, unless there are clear strong reasons not to do so; and the creation of a high level expert group dedicated to research software in the National Committee for Open Science.
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The first draft output of the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group is now undergoing an internal consultation with the working group members until 30 May. After that, a community review period is expected to start on 8 June and end on 8 July, where members of the Research Software Alliance, FORCE11, and RDA will be invited to provide feedback to the document. Next steps and additional information are shared in posts from the FAIR4RS Working Group.
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The FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group presented the structure of the first draft of the FAIR4RS principles at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary 17 on 21 April 2021:
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The ReSA/RDA/FORCE11 FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group will share the first draft of the FAIR principles for research software at the {Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Plenary}(https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-17th-plenary-meeting-edinburgh-virtual) from April 20-23. Stay tuned for further information on other opportunities to engage in this discussion on this draft as well. A recent output of this Working Group is also the opinion piece, Taking a fresh look at FAIR for research software (Katz, Gruenpeter & Honeyman).
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ReSA would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for their support for ReSA’s work in bringing research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of research software through three programs during 2021:
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ReSA is grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for supporting the ReSA task force applying the FAIR principles to research software. The activity is also a FORCE11 and Research Data Alliance working group. The grant from the Sloan Foundation will support the FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group to increase the FAIR community’s focus on improving software health through improved practices by engaging the research software community in the crucial first step of agreeing on the application of the FAIR principles to research software.
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ReSA has three main focus areas: policy, people and infrastructure. This month’s newsletter highlights ReSA work in the policy space to achieve the ReSA aim that research software be recognised and valued as a fundamental and vital component of research worldwide. ReSA taskforces in this area have achieved outcomes including:
ReSA has three main focus areas: policy, people and infrastructure. This month’s newsletter highlights ReSA taskforces in the infrastructure space, particularly on standards and guidelines.
The ReSA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for 4 new members of the Steering Committee in 2021.
ReSA is now a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science and Society (CS&S). CS&S are a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting open collaboration in public interest technology through fiscal sponsorships and community centered programs supporting sustainable open source. ReSA and CS&S share an alignment of missions, with both aiming to empower communities to work together in the software space. ReSA looks forward to engaging with CS&S on financial, administrative and strategic issues.
The ReSA Taskforce on evidence for the importance of research software presented its outcomes in a blog posted by URSSI, SSI and Netherlands eScience Centre in early June. This work identified and analysed resources that demonstrate the importance of research software to research outcomes, to provide information for sharing with key influencers. This analysis considers papers relating to meta-research, policy, community, education and training, research breakthroughs and specific software.
ReSA and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to clearly announce their intention to coordinate their efforts in areas and activities that involve both research data and software.