Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (the Press) has partnered with Code Ocean, a platform that enables authors of articles in Press journals to publish and share code associated with their research and readers to view and run that code from within articles.
Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform, enables authors to openly publish their code on the platform, thereby making it free for others to access, download and share. Sharing the code and data underlying research is an important step in demonstrating that the results presented in research articles can be reproduced. Users can execute the code and view the results without having to install anything on their personal computer. They can even modify the code to see how the results change.
Political Science Research & Methods (PSRM) is the first Press journal adopting Code Ocean, an extension of the journal's existing policy that requires authors to deposit data necessary to reproduce the results in their articles.
Over the next few months, Code Ocean and the Press will work towards the integration of Code Ocean into the submission workflow of journals across various disciplines where code and data are used. In this integrated workflow, authors will be asked if there is code associated with the article during the submission process; those who select yes will be prompted to upload their code to Code Ocean. On publication, the compute capsule containing the code, data, and computational environment in Code Ocean will link to the related article on Cambridge Core. A Code Ocean widget visible on the article page will enable readers to view and run the code without leaving Cambridge Core.
Authors publishing with the Press are responsible for supplying and maintaining accurate records of data associated with their submitted manuscript. Authors can use Code Ocean for code and data, simulations, analysis, and algorithms. Due to the use of container technologies, the execution of that code is agnostic across different programming languages, versions, and operating systems.
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