Abstract
A recent editorial, “Giving Software its Due,”1 described challenges related to the development of research software and highlighted, in particular, the challenge of software publication and citation. Here, we call attention to a system that we have developed enabling community-driven software review, publication, and citation. The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is an open-source project and an open-access journal providing a lightweight publishing process for research software. Focused on and based in open platforms and on a community of contributors, JOSS satisfies a pressing need, evident in having already published more than 500 articles in approximately three years of existence.