http://www.arfon.org/announcing-the-journal-of-open-source-software
"On the face of it, writing papers about software is a weird thing to
do, especially if there's a public software repository, documentation
and perhaps even a website for users of the software. But writing papers
about software is currently the only sure way for authors to gain career
credit as it creates a citable entity (a paper) that can be referenced
by other authors."
A brilliant solution to a significant issue:
To be clear, we believe software papers are a nasty hack on a broken
academic-credit system and that the ideal solution is to move away
from papers as the only creditable research product.
JOSS exists because we believe that after you've done the hard work
of writing great software, it shouldn't take weeks or months to
write a paper about your work.
Via Paul Wise and lwn.net.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
