Open Source and Open Data Should Be Standard Practices (2015) - UCMercedChem225Spring2019/LiteratureReviews GitHub Wiki

Full Citation: J. Daniel Gezelter, "Open Source and Open Data Should Be Standard Practices", The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2015 6 (7), 1168-1169

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00285

Discussed on May 1st, 2019.

Description

In this article the author is arguing for code an data involved in scientific research and publication to be made open source. He raised the reasons for open source and open data including promote reproducibility, save efficiency, lower costs to research grants, bring collaborative opportunities. He also discussed about the challenge, including the adoption of this idea from sociology aspect, the sustainability and maintenance.

Keywords

open-source, open-data, reproducibility, community.