FAIR research software
A key aspect of Open Science is to make your research FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Although the FAIR guiding principles were mostly applied to research data, recently they have also started to be applied to research software. But why is FAIR research software important? And what can you do to make research software FAIR?
How to FAIRify your software
Practicing FAIR means integrating the FAIR principles in your research workflow. Below is a quick guide of what to do and how to do it in order to make your software FAIR.
Example: GitHub and Zenodo
A researcher that has decided to use GitHub as their software repository, can then use their GitHub account to connect to Zenodo. This allows them to publish their software project in a FAIR way on Zenodo, not only to make it more findable by having it on another searchable platform, but also because Zenodo will then provide a persistent DOI for each published version. This DOI can then be made available in the citation file to both keep track of the version used and to simplify the discovery of the correct or current version of the program by other interested parties.
Last modified: | 25 September 2024 3.20 p.m. |