Citations for Software: Providing Identification, Access and Recognition for Research Software

Software plays a significant role in modern academic research, yet lacks a similarly significant presence in the scholarly record. With increasing interest in promoting reproducible research, curating software as a scholarly resource not only promotes access to these tools, but also provides recognition for the intellectual efforts that go into their development. This work reviews existing standards for identifying, promoting discovery of, and providing credit for software development work. In addition, it shows how these guidelines have been integrated into existing tools and community cultures, and provides recommendations for future software curation efforts. Received 11 February 2016 ~ Revision received 15 September 2016 ~ Accepted 8 November 2016 Correspondence should be addressed to Laura Soito, University Libraries, MSC05 3020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Email: [email protected] The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. The IJDC is published by the University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. ISSN: 1746-8256. URL: http://www.ijdc.net/ Copyright rests with the authors. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution (UK) Licence, version 2.0. For details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ International Journal of Digital Curation 2016, Vol. 11, Iss. 2, 48–63 48 http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.390 DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.390 doi:10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.390 Soito and Hwang | 49