On Dec 25, 2007 2:54 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Dec 25, 2007 1:38 AM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >I just noticed this email on the jmol developer mailing list. See below.
> > >[...]
> >
> > I've been presenting Axiom development at various locations, usually
> > Carlo Traverso, head of the Department of Mathematica, in Pisa, Italy
> > and I have been looking at creating a new kind of journal to address
> > this problem. The journal would accept only "literate papers", that is,
> > papers which contain both the research results and the associated source
> > code. The programs would be published in a peer-reviewed journal with a
> > requirement that the program could be run by an independent party and
> > reproduce the reported research results (similar to other sciences).
> >
> > While this would not address the time involved in writing and debugging
> > a program, it would at least give a venue for presenting open source
> > code in a reproducible, peer-reviewed (and therefore tenure-approved)
> > format.
Something like this would be very valuable in encouraging open source
mathematical software. There are numerous difficult technical issues involving
how to do it in a way that satisfies a number of natural constraints. I think
something like this won't happen until a very strong personality with good
connections in the publishing world -- somebody like A.K. Peters but who
is passionate open source math software -- pushes very hard to make it
happen. That could be "me in 10 years", but definitely not now, since I'm
way to busy with other things.
> There is already such a journal, where I am going to publish some of
> my opensource codes -
>
> Computer Physics Communications:
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> www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00104655/
>
> impact factor is around 0.6, so not big, but it still counts as a publication.
Physicists are ahead of us pure mathematicians as usual with this
sort of thing. I've added a link to the above journal here:
http://www.sagemath.org/jsage/journals.html
William
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