Journal article
The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship
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Free and open source software (FOSS) is any computer program released under a licence that grants users rights to run the program for any purpose, to study it, to modify it, and to redistribute it in original or modified form. Our aim is to explore the intersection between FOSS and computational reproducibility. We begin by situating FOSS in relation to other ‘open’ initiatives, and specifically open science, open research, and open scholarship. In this context, we argue that anyone who activ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society, The Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 379
- Issue:
- 2197
- Article number:
- 20200079
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2962
- ISSN:
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1364-503X
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1169604
- Local pid:
- pubs:1169604
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Fortunato and Galassi
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from The Royal Society at https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0079
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