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Reproducibility Librarianship, Vicky Steeves
Reproducibility Librarianship, Vicky Steeves
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Over the past few years, research reproducibility has been increasingly highlighted as a multifaceted challenge across many disciplines. There are socio-cultural obstacles as well as a constantly changing technical landscape that make replicating and reproducing research extremely difficult. Researchers face challenges in reproducing research across different operating systems and different versions of software, to name just a few of the many technical barriers. The prioritization of citation counts and journal prestige has undermined incentives to make research reproducible.
While libraries have been building support around research data management and digital scholarship, reproducibility is an emerging area that has yet to …