GitHub as Scholarly Communication: A community-sourced starter guide

By Brittany Amell1, Jamie Takaoka2

1. University of Victoria 2. Carleton University

In May of 2022, Britt asked Twitter for help finding sources to make the argument that sharing code via repositories like GitHub could be considered a form of Scholarly Communications. (This was when Twitter was Twitter.) Her tweet generated a lot…

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In May of 2022, Britt asked Twitter for help finding sources to make the argument that sharing code via repositories like GitHub could be considered a form of Scholarly Communications. (This was when Twitter was Twitter.) Her tweet generated a lot of discussion and several responses included tips, resources, things to be aware of, and projects to follow. Thinking that access to the crowd-sourced resources could be useful to others, she  opened a Google Doc, copied all of the tweets, organized them roughly, and then shared that document with the academic Twitter community. The document lived on her Google drive for 3 years. In 2025, she decided to archive the document and moved it to the HSS Commons.

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  • Amell, B., Takaoka, J., (2025), "GitHub as Scholarly Communication: A community-sourced starter guide", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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  1. github
  2. open scholarship
  3. scholarly communications

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Amell, B. & Takaoka, J. (2022). Eds. GitHub as Scholarly Communication: A Community-Sourced Starter Guide.

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