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Joshua, a staff member of the FSF, has expressed to me the FSF's interest in finding academic papers that discuss software freedom. If enough articles are found, then the FSF could publish a paper linking to and summarizing those articles, adding its own thoughts back into academic discussion.
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Joshua, a staff member of the FSF, has expressed to me the FSF's interest in creating an annotated bibliography of academic papers that discuss free software and/or software freedom. If enough articles are found, then the FSF may publish a lit review.
  
There hasn't been such an effort at the FSF before, so it will be interesting to see what gets discovered. It will be valuable to know and to demonstrate what academics think about free software, its implications and its uses. If there is actual data, evidence, or insight that shows the value of free software according to peer-reviewed authors, then that corroborates the FSF's message for those who are sceptics.
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== reasoning ==
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There hasn't been such an effort at the FSF before, so it will be interesting to see what gets discovered. It'll be valuable to know and to demonstrate what academics think about free software, its implications and uses. If there is actual data, evidence, or insight that shows the value of free software according to peer-reviewed authors, then that corroborates the FSF's message for those who are sceptical about software freedom.
  
 
== subject targets ==
 
== subject targets ==
  
Papers that are of most interest are those that focus on software freedom, especially in the 'hard sciences'. Those in the 'soft sciences', or that discuss 'open source' are also of interest, since sometimes people say 'open source' without realizing how it falls short of what they've demonstrated to truly value. Also, comparison of free software ideals to ideas about open source could be a topic worth discussing.
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Papers that are of most interest are those that focus on free software in the 'hard sciences'. They could be about the use and/or development of free software for any stage of their research. Those that discuss software freedom in the 'soft sciences' are of interest too. (It's ok if authors say 'open source', since sometimes people say it without knowing it misses the point.)
  
 
== papers that have been found ==
 
== papers that have been found ==
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* [http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/2011/935364/ BioSig: The Free and Open Source Software Library for Biomedical Signal Processing], ''Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience'' Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 935364, 12 pages
 
* [http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/2011/935364/ BioSig: The Free and Open Source Software Library for Biomedical Signal Processing], ''Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience'' Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 935364, 12 pages
  
== useful software ==
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See also those listed on the [[Group_talk:FS_Research|talk page]] that haven't had their citation templates imported to the LP wiki.
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== Zotero Groups ==
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Joshua has pointed out [http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero], which is an AGPL extension for firefox. It's useful for keeping track of articles you are interested in, and for automatically finding and exporting bibliographical information. Supported export formats include html, wikimedia citation template calls, and many others.
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Zotero also supports sharing what you've found with other people. Here are some of the groups people have made on Zotero's website:
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* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/foss FOSS]
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* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/free_and_open_source_software Free and Open Source Software]
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* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/anthropology_of_floss_free_libre_open_source_software Anthropology of FLOSS Free Libre Open Source Software]
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* [http://www.zotero.org/groups/open_source_practices/ Open Source Practices]
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Joshua has pointed out [http://www.zotero.org/ zotero], which is an AGPL extension for firefox. It's useful for keeping track of articles you are interested in.
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Latest revision as of 16:33, 30 September 2013

Joshua, a staff member of the FSF, has expressed to me the FSF's interest in creating an annotated bibliography of academic papers that discuss free software and/or software freedom. If enough articles are found, then the FSF may publish a lit review.

reasoning

There hasn't been such an effort at the FSF before, so it will be interesting to see what gets discovered. It'll be valuable to know and to demonstrate what academics think about free software, its implications and uses. If there is actual data, evidence, or insight that shows the value of free software according to peer-reviewed authors, then that corroborates the FSF's message for those who are sceptical about software freedom.

subject targets

Papers that are of most interest are those that focus on free software in the 'hard sciences'. They could be about the use and/or development of free software for any stage of their research. Those that discuss software freedom in the 'soft sciences' are of interest too. (It's ok if authors say 'open source', since sometimes people say it without knowing it misses the point.)

papers that have been found

See also those listed on the talk page that haven't had their citation templates imported to the LP wiki.

Zotero Groups

Joshua has pointed out Zotero, which is an AGPL extension for firefox. It's useful for keeping track of articles you are interested in, and for automatically finding and exporting bibliographical information. Supported export formats include html, wikimedia citation template calls, and many others.

Zotero also supports sharing what you've found with other people. Here are some of the groups people have made on Zotero's website: