Dr Paula Andrea Martinez1, Dr Frankie Stevens2, Dr Tom Honeyman1
1Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), , Australia, 2Frankie Stevens Digital Research, , Australia
The 2021 Australian National Research Infrastructure Roadmap includes research software as an area of focus. There is a call to “ensure researchers can find and access the research software they need, … to improve efficiency and reduce duplication of effort in developing new software solutions.”
An outcome of the development of a community validated National Agenda for Research Software by the ARDC over 2021/23, was the identification of visibility of research software as one of three goals to achieve a vision of recognition of research software. Following the identification of this goal, the ARDC Research Software program formed a partnership with UNSW Library and the Australian BioCommons to co-lead the Visible Research Software Interest Group. An early priority identified by members of this group is to gain a better understanding of the ways in which researchers discover software for use in research.
Acting on this identified need, the ARDC launched a survey to better understand how researchers find research software. The aims of this survey are to inform priority areas for the development of relevant infrastructure and guidance development to facilitate researchers’ access to the research software they need. The anonymised results of this survey will be openly available for others to use. In this talk we will present the findings of this survey.
Biography:
Dr Frankie Stevens is a consultant in Digital Research (eResearch) services, specialising in the application of advanced information and communication technologies to the practice of Research.
Dr Paula Andrea Martinez is currently the Software Project Coordinator at the ARDC. Her work supports the ARDC Software Program for Australia leading to better research software recognition.
Dr Tom Honeyman is the Software Program Manager. He leads a program of activities working towards recognition of research software as a first-class output of research.