Journals
Most scientific journals do not accept software papers because a description of a reasonably mature software usually does not meet the criterion of novelty. Outside computer science itself, there are only few journals dedicated to scientific software. Established journals like Elsevier's Computer Physics Communications publish papers that are not open-access (though the described software usually is). To fill this gap, a new journal entitled Open research computation was announced in 2010; it closed in 2012 without having published a single paper, for a lack of submissions probably due to excessive quality requirements. A new initiative was launched in 2012, the Journal of Open Research Software.
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