Publish Date: 08.03.2022
Category: News from the University
“It’s not even about open source; it’s all about the open-source community” is the thesis discussed by Prof Janko Slavič, PhD, from the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. This thesis is supported with the article co-written with 110 authors and published in the renowned scientific journal Nature Methods. The article was selected as one of the most outstanding research achievements in the field of natural science and technology, with the designation “Excellent in Science 2021”. The selection is made every year by the Slovenian Research Agency.
In recent years, scientific community is heavily discussing open access publishing, i.e. making publications of scientific research available to everyone. Scientific research is often based on numerical methods or programming procedures developed in various types of software. If such a program code is publicly disclosed/open, it enables greater reproducibility and can considerably reduce wasting human resources spent on re-developing a similar code.
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