Not-for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, now enables journal authors to share code through its new partnership with Code Ocean, an open platform that improves transparency and computational reproducibility to advance scientific research and invention. Authors publishing journal articles advancing light-based technologies in the SPIE Digital Library now have the option to include links to the executable code.
SPIE now integrates Code Ocean in its journal manuscript submission workflow. Authors of accepted articles use the simple interface to upload code to the platform where it is assigned a DOI to support correct attribution and citation. Upon publication in the SPIE Digital Library, these articles include a link enabling users to access and run the code on the Code Ocean platform. Authors retain copyright for the code and can authorise various levels of reuse licensing.
Software code, statistical analysis, and algorithms are often essential to reproducing published research results. Code Ocean supports more than ten programming languages and mirrors the computational environment of the original code to eliminate barriers for researchers who wish to analyse and reproduce findings or potentially apply it to solve new research problems. The cloud-based platform significantly reduces the time and investment required to execute the original code using the exact version of the computing language, hardware, operating system, dependency files, and original data sets.
The SPIE integration follows successful collaborations with IEEE, F1000 Research, and GigaScience.
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