OPEN ACCESS TO CODE: EGU journal implements new requirement for authors to provide computer code of their models

The new policies include the requirement that, from now on, authors must provide the actual computer code of their models to the reviewers or editor as part of the review process. Furthermore, authors are required to include a section in the paper itself discussing the availability of their code to the wider community. If the authors choose not to make their code available to the community, then they must describe the reasons for this.

The case for open computer programs

Ince, D.C., Hatton, L., Graham-Cumming, J. (2012). The case for open computer programs. Nature 482, 485–488.

Comprehensive nature article on open computer programs in science. From the abstract:

Scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely included in publications, but the rise of computational science has added a new layer of inaccessibility. Although it is now accepted that data should be made available on request, the current regulations regarding the availability of software are inconsistent. We argue that, with some exceptions, anything less than the release of source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation.