Astrophysics SourceCode Library

Making scientist software discoverable

Alice AllenASCL, Editor06/25/15 CUA

Assumptions

Software is important in research

Research software should be available“… anything less than release of

actual source code is an indefensible approach for any scientific results that depend on computation...”Ince, Hatton, & Graham-Cumming, The case for

open computer programs, Nature, v. 482, Feb. 23, 2012

ASCL.net

Code entry

Code entry

ascl ID

Code entry

Name of code

Code entry

Code authors

Code entry

Description of code

Code entry

Download site for code

Code entry

Refereed paper describing/using code

Code entry

bibcode

Code entry

Link to discussion threadNumber of times record has been viewed

Home page

Home page

10 newest codes in reverse order

Browse

Browse

Order by title or ascl IDWith or without abstractCan reverse orderChoice of number of codes/page

Number of code entries at

year end, 2010 - 2014

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No one can assume that valuable innovations will pop up magically in the public domain if their inventors received no reward for their labor and capital.

- Richard Epstein

Percentage of ASCL entries

in ADS with citations

Jan-14 Jan-15 present0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

14.0%

16.0%

18.0%

7.5%

12.2%

15.3%

Secrets of the ASCL….

Random codePull data dynamicallyData on GitHub (occasionally refreshed)

“Associated Articles” in ADSHandy link

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