Reasons To Register Your Software With The Astrophysics Source Code Library

This presentation covered the benefits of registering astronomy research software with the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, https://ascl.net/ ), a free online registry for software used in astronomy research.

Indexed by ADS and Clarivate’s Web of Science, the ASCL currently contains over 3600 codes, and its entries have been cited over 17,000 times. Registering your code with the ASCL is easy with our online submissions system.

Making your software available for examination shows confidence in your research and makes your research more transparent, reproducible, and falsifiable. ASCL registration allows your software to be cited on its own merits and provides a citation method that is trackable and accepted by all astronomy journals, and by journals such as Science and Nature.

Adding your code to the ASCL also allows others to find your code more easily, as it can then be found not only in the ASCL itself, but also in ADS, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.

Alice Allen, Kimberly DuPrie

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
Cite as: arXiv:2412.19941 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2412.19941v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.19941
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From: Alice Allen
[v1] Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:37:44 UTC (164 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19941

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