Tooting Your Science-Horn(and listen to the orchestra)

Christian Himpe (christian.himpe@uni-muenster.de)

WWU MünsterInstitute for Computational and Applied Mathematics

15.04.2014

citeulike

What? A list of cites you likeWhy? Keeping track; publiclyWhere? http://citeulike.org(Bad) Alternative: (Mendeley)

github

What? A hub for git repositoriesWhy? CollaborationWhere? http://github.com(Bad) Alternative: (Bitbucket)

arxiv

What? Share your preprintsWhy? The sooner people know, the betterWhere? http://arxiv.org(Bad) Alternative: (Vixra)

sciencegist

What? Short summaries of scientific papersWhy? Nobody has timeWhere? http://sciencegist.comAlternative: None?

runmycode

What? Reproducible scientific softwareWhy? Show you computed resultsWhere? http://runmycode.orgAlternative: ResearchCompendia(http://researchcompendia.org)

twitter

What? A public SMSWhy? Use it as a news feedWhere? http://twitter.com(Bad) Alternative: (Identica)

google+

What? Google’s social networkWhy? g+ post are included in google’s searchWhere? http://plus.google.com(Bad) Alternative: (Facebook)

researchgate

What? A facebook for scientistsWhy? Share articles and ask questionsWhere? http://researchgate.netAlternative: Academia

academia

What? Another facebook for scientistsWhy? Share everything and make statementsWhere? http://academia.eduAlternative: Researchgate

slideshare

What? Presentation repositoryWhy? You are talking about your work, right?Where? http://slideshare.net(Bad) Alternative: (Reel)

impactstory

What? Summary of your deedsWhy? Kinda like a CVWhere? http://impactstory.org(Bad) Alternative: (Coderwall)

MORwiki

What? A wiki about model reductionWhy? List (your) methods and software andcompare benchmarksWhere? http://modelreduction.orgAlternative: None!

Shortbread

tier 1:http://orms.mfo.dehttp://swmath.org

science:http://morepas.orghttp://openscience.org

other:http://archive.todayhttp://ohloh.net

repos:http://mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchangehttp://pypi.python.org

ask:http://stackoverflow.comhttp://mathoverflow.net

Get DOIs

from:zenodo: http://zenodo.orgfigshare: http://figshare.com

for:PapersPostersThesisSoftware (also importable from github)

tl;dl

Remember:Make your stuff available!Don’t forget to license!Don’t forget to tag!

Bonus Level

Science Code Manifesto

Software Evaluation Guide

The case for open computer programs

Publish your computer code: it is good enough

Best Practices for Scientific Computing

Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software

Quo Vadis, Scientific Software?

“Setting the Default to Reproducible” in Computational Science Research

12 Ways to Fool the Masses: Fast Forward to 2011

Top 10 Reasons to Not Share Your Code (and why you should anyway)

Reproducible Results: Challenges for Computational Science and the ScientificMethod

Reproducible Research for Scientific Computing: Tools and Strategies forChanging the Culture

Improving CSE Software through Reproducibility Requirements

Code Share