Github Scientists: DOI for repositories and preferential academic accounts

Github continues to expand its areas of application - the company’s management sees Github in the future not only as a tool for programmers, but also as a universal repository for any text data. It already has repositories in which books, bills are written, and statistical data are published. And last week, it became possible to assign a DOI identifier to any repository. This will allow you to refer to data or code from the Github repositories in scientific papers and articles in a manner generally accepted in the scientific community.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) ​​in science is an analogue of the ISBN in a publishing house or a URL on the Internet. The possibility of assigning a DOI repository is implemented in partnership with Zenodo - a site that serves as a kind of file sharing service for scientists. Any file uploaded to the Zenodo server is assigned a DOI. With the integration configured, each release in the Github repository will be automatically loaded into Zenodo and will receive a DOI.

Another innovation - preferential tariff plans for scientists and students appeared on Github. If you register for an academic email account, you can request a free Micro tariff plan (5 private repositories) for individual users or Silver (20 private repositories) for organizations.

Source: Github's official blog .
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