Software Publishing with AAS Journals

This is the first half of a talk on Software and Data Publishing with AAS Journals with Gus Muench (talking about the data aspect) at .Astronomy 8 in Oxford.

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1. Software Publishing with the AAS Journals Tom Robitaille .Astronomy 8, Oxford
2. Software an increasingly important part of scientific workflow A large amount of software is developed by junior scientists (e.g. Astropy project) Need to recognize this and attribute credit
3. http://journals.aas.org/policy/software.html
4. No need for novel research results Novel or important software No minimum length Guidelines for Software Papers
5. Recommend (but don’t require): open source license archiving of software on e.g. Zenodo or FigShare publishing of software itself
8. https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/
9. Citation of software/software papers Can cite paper describing software Can cite DOI referring to software Ideally both (credit and reproducibility)
10. Citation of software/software papers \software{Astropy \citep{http://dx.doi.org/...}, Matplotlib \citep{http://dx.doi.org/...}}
11. Why publish software papers? Provides a place to record motivations, algorithms, etc. for posterity Citations! Papers are a recognized metric for research output