Map of Open-Source Science (MOSS)

Welcome to Open-Source Science (OSSci), a new NumFOCUS initiative.

We are building the Map of Open-Source Science (MOSS), a new interface that lets you explore the following questions:

Which open-source scientific software tools are available in any given domain?
How are these tools used or references in academic papers (published research)?
Who are the people behind both the papers and the tools?

Stay up to date & get involved

Checkout all the options to follow Open-Source Science (OSSci) and be the first to know when we launch. Our interest group meets on a monthly basis and welcomes anyone to collaborate. Join the Google group to receive meeting invites and our OSSci forum to share and discuss resources and ideas.

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Read Our Draft Concept Paper

Before the establishment of the first scientific journals in 1665 science was communicated in the letters between the scientists. The process of scientific discovery was haphazard and informal. The journals, and then citations and peer review (1733) made it more systematic and orderly. Read more...

EuChemS CompChem: Mapping OSS in Computational Chemistry

Read about what we discoverd during a first mapping exercise we did at a conference on computational chemistry in September 2023.