These guidelines are adapted from the Open Science Practices of the CHASE Workshop series.
We encourage authors to use open science practices to make their research and data accessible to anybody in the world. Here are guidelines and recommendations for open access, open data, and open source.
The following guidelines are recommendations and not mandatory. Your choice to use open science will not affect the review process for your paper.
We encourage authors to self-archive their pre- and post-prints in open, preserved repositories. This is legal and allowed by all major publishers including ACM and IEEE (granted in the copyright transfer agreement), and it lets anybody in the world reach your paper.
If the authors of your paper wish to do this, we recommend:
Note that you are not allowed to self-archive the PDF of the published article, that is, the PDF that you can find in IEEE Xplore. Only self-archive your own generated PDFs.
We encourage you to use a preserved, archived repository instead of your personal website. Personal websites are prone to changes and errors, and more than 30% of them will not work in a 4 years period.
We encourage authors of accepted papers to make their data public, in order to enhance the transparency of the process and the reproducibility of the results.
If the authors of your paper wish to do this, we recommend:
We encourage authors to make their research software accessible as open source and citable.
We encourage you to avoid putting data and source on your own personal websites or services intended for generic file sharing, since more than 30% of them will not work in a 4 years period.