Episode 4: Software in Scholarly Communications
Channel: Software Preservation Network
Date: 2018-05-18

This is the third episode in a series of six webinars on Software Preservation. The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees. The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Software Preservation Network (SPN). 

Episode 4 provides an overview of scholarly communication practices as they relate to software preservation and citation within contemporary scholarly research methods.  Attention is paid to evolving and changing practices in a variety of institutional settings (e.g. post-secondary institutions , GLAMs, nonprofits), and to the need for disciplinary responsiveness in publication and citation practices. Special Guests include James Howison (University of Texas at Austin), Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (Vanderbilt University), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustinability Institute).