Short term action: Understand: How do researchers find research software?

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The question of how do researchers find research software is very relevant to make research software more visible.
The responses to this question might facilitate and improve findability of research software. Will inform repository managers and research software authors of what fields are to be included in their software in order to improve the findings of their assets.

We would like us to share your opinions on this question. What you know and what you would like to learn.
The ARDC will be working on a survey and encourages people who are interested in the development and analysis to reach out.

For questions community.vrs+manager@ardc.edu.au

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As an update, ARDC is starting to work on this project.
We plan to consult researchers via a survey, and we will be looking at ways to share the survey. I would appreciate if interested institutions can help us disseminate. Please get in contact community.vrs+manager@ardc.edu.au

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At the end of June, the ARDC will launch a survey to better understand how researchers find research software. The results of this survey will be used to identify priority areas for the development of relevant infrastructure and guidance development to better enable researchers to access leading edge software tools for research.

If you're interested in completing the survey yourself, or to assist in passing the survey on for others to complete, please register your early interest and you'll be amongst the first to know when it goes live.

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Here some literature worth checking in case you are interested:

• Pre-print Struck, Alexander. (2018, July 11). Research Software Discovery: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1310046
• A. Struck, "Research Software Discovery: An Overview," 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018, pp. 33-37, doi: 10.1109/eScience.2018.00016.
• “Findable Research Software” in this blog post:
  from de-RSE February 6, 2022
• Howison, James and Julia Bullard (May 2015). “Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature”. In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67.9, pp. 2137– 2155. doi: 10.1002/asi.23538. url: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23538.
• Hucka, Michael and Matthew J. Graham (July 2018). “Software search is not a science, even among scientists: A survey of how scientists and engineers find software”. In: Journal of Systems and Software 141, pp. 171–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.03.047

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Open invitation, please share with researchers:

How do you find research software? Please help us complete the survey to uncover the answer. We encourage all researchers, in particular, researchers who code, to participate. The survey takes 10 mins and is anonymous. Your responses will help inform future research infrastructure priorities and facilitate software access for researchers.

Closing 14 August 2022. TAKE THE SURVEY NOW and share the URL https://bit.ly/findsoftware

We thank you for your assistance in boosting the participation in the survey.

With kind regards,

ARDC Software Program

News article invitation: https://ardc.edu.au/news/researcher-survey-how-do-you-find-code-for-research/

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We are analysing the results of the survey which we plan to make publicly available in November 2022.

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The first public presentation will be at eResearch Australasia 2022 see program.
18 Oct at 15:45 – 16:05 AEST Location: Boulevard B1, Stream: Future-focused eResearch Strategy
link to Abstract

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Published Dec 1st, 2022
Report: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7340034
Resources: https://ardc.edu.au/resource/understanding-how-researchers-find-research-software-for-research-practice/
Short blog post:
https://ardc.edu.au/article/ardc-survey-reveals-challenges-and-opportunities-in-research-software-discovery/
Survey Call: https://ardc.edu.au/article/researcher-survey-how-do-you-find-code-for-research-now-open/

thanks for being involved!