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New Guidelines Urge Code Sharing for Research Integrity

10/8/2025

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Story summary

Recommendations, drawn from open-source experiences, target scholars and institutions using software to improve practices.
Training scientists to share code underpins research integrity and reproducibility, though practices vary.
GitHub and Zenodo enable sharing and archiving, but knowledge remains uneven.
PhD programs should include basic software engineering early; CODE beyond FAIR aims to improve software handling, with publishers mandating code sharing.

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Story summary

Recommendations, drawn from open-source experiences, target scholars and institutions using software to improve practices.
Training scientists to share code underpins research integrity and reproducibility, though practices vary.
GitHub and Zenodo enable sharing and archiving, but knowledge remains uneven.
PhD programs should include basic software engineering early; CODE beyond FAIR aims to improve software handling, with publishers mandating code sharing.