Something to cite

[chatcannon]

People who write articles sometimes want to cite the software they use. Galvani is described in Appendix C of my PhD thesis, which is available open access from the university website. Or would people rather use something that creates a DOI from the GitHub link?

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/471dc8a7-0483-4da6-a205-cc97ad91718a

[chatcannon]

@ml-evs - Any thoughts on what researchers would like nowadays?

[ml-evs]

I think the typical workflow for "unpublished" software would be to archive it on Zenodo and receive a DOI. You can set up a GitHub/Zenodo integration that automatically archives each version with a fresh DOI (whilst maintaining an overall "concept DOI" for the whole project).

You could also add a CITATION.cff file to this repo that could provide the proper citation for the section in your thesis too, and ask people to cite both.

The Zenodo thing is something you would have to do on your own Zenodo account (no way to give others permissions yet) but happy to help prepare the citation file.