What are Academic uses of GitHub?
Enhanced Collaboration: Provides a platform for university and global academic collaboration . Allowing multiple users to work on the same project without conflicts, streamlining efforts.
Easy Documentation and Dissemination: GitHub facilitates effective documentation of research processes and broader dissemination of findings.
Cost Savings: Public and private projects at no cost to campus users including faculty, staff, students, and researchers.
Project Promotion: Provides a way to promote and cultivate Syracuse University open source projects to all audiences.
Promotes Open Science: Hosting code and data on GitHub aids in ensuring research transparency and reproducibility.
How to get started
Additional Information
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- 50,000 Actions minutes/month (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions)
- 50 GB of Packages storage
- Protected branches (https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-protected-branches/about-protected-branches)