Maintaining & Sustaining Software Beginner 25m
Sharing Research Software: Citable, Discoverable, and Reproducible
Practical, low-barrier approaches to making research software citable, discoverable, and reusable — including CITATION.cff, licensing, metadata, and FAIR principles.
Learning outcomes
- Explain why research software requires citation and attribution
- Add and validate a CITATION.cff file in a repository
- Select and implement an appropriate open source license
- Enhance software visibility through documentation and metadata improvements
- Connect these practices to FAIR principles for research software
- Manage reproducible environments using lightweight tools such as pixi
Prerequisites
Git, Open source basics
Cite this lesson
APA
UC OSPO Network (2026). Sharing Research Software: Citable, Discoverable, and Reproducible. UC OSPO Network. https://ucospo.net/research-software-citable-discoverable/
BibTeX
@misc{research_software_citable_discoverable_2026,
author = {{UC OSPO Network}},
title = {Sharing Research Software: Citable, Discoverable, and Reproducible},
year = {2026},
publisher = {UC OSPO Network},
url = {https://ucospo.net/research-software-citable-discoverable/}
}