The past year has seen movement on several fronts for improving software
citation, including the Center for Open Science's Transparency and Openness
Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, the Software Publishing Special Interest Group that
was started at January's AAS meeting in Seattle at the request of that
organization's Working Group on Astronomical Software, a Sloan-sponsored
meeting at GitHub in San Francisco to begin work on a cohesive research
software citation-enabling platform, the work of Force11 to "transform and
improve" research communication, and WSSSPE's ongoing efforts that include
software publication, citation, credit, and sustainability.
Brief reports on these efforts were shared at the BoF, after which
participants discussed ideas for improving software citation, generating a list
of recommendations to the community of software authors, journal publishers,
ADS, and research authors. The discussion, recommendations, and feedback will
help form recommendations for software citation to those publishers represented
in the Software Publishing Special Interest Group and the broader community.Comment: Birds of a Feather session organized by the Astrophysics Source Code
Library (ASCL, http://ascl.net/ ); to be published in Proceedings of ADASS
XXV (Sydney, Australia; October, 2015). 4 page
