Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Start Date
4-6-2026 2:30 PM
End Date
4-6-2026 3:00 PM
Description
The Research Software Alliance’s Publishing Research Software Forum is a collaboration of publishers committed to recognizing research software as fundamental and vital to research, supporting it, and connecting it and its developers to research publications. The forum provides a formal mechanism for members to share practices and consider how to individually and collectively address common challenges to achieve the significant cultural change needed across the research sector globally.
This presentation will share the forum’s work to increase policy alignment and implementation; incentives and enforcements to support researcher citation of research software; and alignment with broader efforts to improve citation of other digital objects. This work includes opportunities for broader members of the community (ie non-publishers) to also become engaged in achieving shared goals.
As open research practices continue to make critical strides, the essential component of research software needs better integration. Research software powers the modern research enterprise, and a significant proportion of research outputs across disciplines involve the creation of new software. To provide research software with the systemic support given to data or publications requires more than simply extending existing practices to software, as software’s dynamic, executable nature demands distinct practices for citation, licensing, documentation, and sustainability. The Research Software Alliance’s aims to strengthen the global research software ecosystem through collaborations with decision makers and key influencers.
Included in
Integration of Research Software in Open Scholarship
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
The Research Software Alliance’s Publishing Research Software Forum is a collaboration of publishers committed to recognizing research software as fundamental and vital to research, supporting it, and connecting it and its developers to research publications. The forum provides a formal mechanism for members to share practices and consider how to individually and collectively address common challenges to achieve the significant cultural change needed across the research sector globally.
This presentation will share the forum’s work to increase policy alignment and implementation; incentives and enforcements to support researcher citation of research software; and alignment with broader efforts to improve citation of other digital objects. This work includes opportunities for broader members of the community (ie non-publishers) to also become engaged in achieving shared goals.
As open research practices continue to make critical strides, the essential component of research software needs better integration. Research software powers the modern research enterprise, and a significant proportion of research outputs across disciplines involve the creation of new software. To provide research software with the systemic support given to data or publications requires more than simply extending existing practices to software, as software’s dynamic, executable nature demands distinct practices for citation, licensing, documentation, and sustainability. The Research Software Alliance’s aims to strengthen the global research software ecosystem through collaborations with decision makers and key influencers.