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Journal of Federally Funded Software

Find the code public investment made possible. Understand it. Reproduce it. Make its next life possible.

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Companion improvement series

The editorial mission

From public funding to public possibility.

An independent Research University journal within the Stanford Designership Press collection. Scope: software discovery, funding provenance, reproducibility, preservation, maintenance and responsible reuse. The ambition is comprehensive coverage; this launch is a bounded starting atlas, not a complete census of federal software.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Freedom Cheteni. Publisher: The Research University. The collection name does not imply Stanford University affiliation or endorsement. Launch materials are AI-assisted editorial resources, not peer-reviewed research articles. No DOI or ISSN is claimed. Read the editorial and evidence standards →

VOLUME 1 / 2026

The Public Code Dividend

01 · Editorial field guide

The public code dividend

Public investment should leave a discoverable computational legacy.

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02 · Editorial field guide

NSF: from award to executable

Follow the award number beyond the government domain.

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03 · Editorial field guide

NIH: beyond the paper

Biomedical software lives across packages, workflows, registries and laboratories.

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04 · Editorial field guide

DOE and the laboratory network

Connect the central software catalog to laboratory stewardship.

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05 · Editorial field guide

NASA and mission software

Two catalogs, distinct distribution paths, one provenance chain.

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06 · Editorial field guide

A repository worth finding

A practical, testable improvement framework for research software infrastructure.

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The Federal Software Atlas

A map to the code.

Source-reviewed discovery leads from the founding research, dated October 29, 2026. Catalogs, funding systems and archives serve different purposes. Funding must be verified for each software project. Endpoint availability, installation and reproducibility have not been tested for these entries.

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