Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2023

Establishing a national research software award

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Software development has become an integral part of the scholarly ecosystem, spanning all fields and disciplines. To support the sharing and creation of knowledge in line with open science principles, and particularly to enable the reproducibility of research results, it is crucial to make the source code of research software available, allowing for modification, reuse, and distribution. Recognizing the significance of open-source software contributions in academia, the second French Plan for Open Science, announced by the Minister of Higher Education and Research in 2021, introduced a National Award to promote open-source research software. This award serves multiple objectives: firstly, to highlight the software projects and teams that have devoted time and effort to develop outstanding research software, sometimes for decades, and often with little recognition; secondly, to draw attention to the importance of software as a valuable research output and to inspire new generations of researchers to follow and learn from these examples. We present here an in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of this unique initiative. As a national award established explicitly to foster Open Science practices by the French Minister of Research, it faced the intricate challenge of fairly evaluating open research software across all fields, striving for inclusivity across domains, applications, and participants. We provide a comprehensive report on the results of the first edition, which received 129 high-quality submissions. Additionally, we emphasize the impact of this initiative on the open science landscape, promoting software as a valuable research outcome, on par with publications.

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Cite 10.57745/HN6O85 Jeu de données Le Berre, Daniel, 2023, "Données anonymes concernant les candidatures au premier prix science ouverte du logiciel libre de la recherche", https://doi.org/10.57745/HN6O85, Recherche Data Gouv, V1, UNF:6:O+rIJzStqDddc/mEOO78zg== [fileUNF]

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hal-04258977 , version 1 (25-10-2023)

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Isabelle Catala, Roberto Di Cosmo, Mathieu Giraud, Daniel Le Berre, Violaine Louvet, et al.. Establishing a national research software award. 2023. ⟨hal-04258977⟩
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