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Why would an academic write a textbook for free?
And since I use free software all the time, it's also a way that I could give back something to the open source / creative commons community. …
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My research paper filed as a patent in China by my Chinese supervisor without me as inventor
I am fully aware that the research paper is an open source idea anybody can use it. However, this is the case of copyright infringement. …
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Why do many talented scientists write horrible software?
As this assessment could be probably biased by my own experience, I have inspected some open source projects run by researchers (and maybe a few software engineers) and cited in many important papers. …
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Why do academics prefer Mac/Linux?
A lot of academic institutions, especially in more computing-related fields, are big supports of open-source/FLOSS communities, and Linux is obviously a very big underlying part of such communities. …
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Why are papers without code but with results accepted?
However, many scientists are starting to notice the problem (and they see how open source culture flourishes). …
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Is it ethical for a professor to get masters students to work on open source modules related...
My professor of Computer Science has a company (both based in Germany) that promotes an open-source software. … He assigns them to build algorithmic modules for the open-source software.
The student gets well trained in the software because of that. …
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Is this violation of academic integrity if I ask a question on Github public repository and ...
But, since I've been developing open-source software for more than 25 years now and have been leading open source communities for 20, I do think that it's worthwhile pointing out that the behavior of the …
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How do I reference the Python programming language in a thesis or a paper?
Open-Source scientific tools such as CellProfiler usually tell you how to reference them, but Python doesn't.
How is the Python language properly referenced? …
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Is pasting an excerpt from Wikipedia in a paper without reference plagiarism?
But regardless of whether something is still copyrighted or not, open source or not, freely available or not, if it is quoted, cited, copied or otherwise repeated in a text, if the source is not cited … When something passes into "common knowledge" then it can be written without having to find a quotable source. …
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Free, open-source substitutes for Mendeley?
Mendeley is (mainly) a proprietary social network to share basic citation data and research papers. see also
Are there any free and open source substitutes for this service? …
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How do you cite a Github repository?
I developed an Open Source Web tool for modeling and gathering data when following a certain theory/methodology in software engineering. … It is a fully Open Access journal. This journal only accepts software papers on open source software for research. …
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I wrote the code based on a paper's methodology; are there any legal problems with making it...
You are not required to get permission to implement an idea you have read about in a paper, or to make it open source. … You should also acknowledge the source of the idea by citing the paper in which you read about it, but this is an ethical requirement, not a legal one. …
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Best-practice models for "research" code?
If you plan to release your code as open source software and you expect it to be picked up by other people across the world, then go nuts - use all the engineering techniques you have also used in industry …
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A student posted my lab materials as a "project" on Instructables, and hid its origin as a l...
He added his own “main” source file, i.e. the thing he had to submit to me. … The code in the repository is under an open source license that allows students to redistribute the code. (He didn’t actually post any of my code, though.) …
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Is it ethical to use proprietary (closed-source) software for scientific computation?
of method M is correct while the known open-source implementations of M have not (yet) been established as reliable. … If P is not commercially available but rather a closed-source in-house solution then an open-source package is preferable. …