From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia

Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it’s being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing.

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Open Science needs a software revolution: Here’s a blueprint

The Software Heritage Open Science Strategic Blueprint outlines a bold vision to preserve and share all publicly available source code.

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Episciences links article code through Software Heritage

Episciences enables linking publications to source code archived in Software Heritage, enhancing research reproducibility.

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Inside Look: France’s National Research Software Catalog

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Three questions for Software Heritage Ambassador Violaine Louvet about France’s new national research software catalog.

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How Software Heritage ensures reliable Guix deployment

How Software Heritage and GNU Guix are meeting the challenge of reproducible research by ensuring the long-term availability and verification of software source code.

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The vital role of software in Open Science

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A recent talk by Roberto Di Cosmo, Software Heritage co-founder, underscored the role of software preservation for the future of open science. Speaking at the University of São Paulo, Di Cosmo highlighted Software Heritage as the essential infrastructure for this very task, providing universal access to the source code that powers research.

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OSPO-RADAR

OSPO-RADAR aims to solve isolated research code issues by building a platform to map, reveal, and make code accessible. An Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant is making the two-year project possible.

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