ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the authors show how to create more complex LaTeX documents to present their reproducible research. In the United States and many other countries, research, including computer code made available via the internet, is automatically given copyright protection. However, copyright protection works against the scientific goals of reproducible research, because work derived from the research falls under the original copyright protections. Citing data and source code presents unique problems. Data and source code can change and be updated over time in a way that published articles and books generally are not. A unique global identifier (UGI) uniquely identifies the data set. UGIs could identify a source code file or collection of files. The universal numeric fingerprint could identify a particular version and a bridge service would create a link to the actual files. The files used to create the results need to be publicly available for the research to be really reproducible.