Actionable knowledge with the help of method repositories

Abstract

Purpose

Nowadays, there is a rapid growth in different sciences that has led to thousands of publications in the form of scientific research papers. The readers of these papers are generally the people that are involved in science (i.e. researchers, students, teachers and professors). On the other hand, practitioners rarely use these articles as a resource to learn and apply new methods. They prefer an easy to understand, step-by-step guide (i.e. cookbook) helping them skip over the difficult scientific terms and structures. Therefore, because of a shortage of tools in this space, it takes practitioners many years to use newly developed methods.

Design/methodology/approach

The purpose of this study is to review the literature on verified repositories and presents the necessity of method repositories.

Findings

This paper aims to introduce method repositories as new tools to bridge the gap between science and practice.

Originality/value

Method repositories presented in this paper act as an easy to understand guide for newly developed methods in specific fields.

Citation

Khezri, H., Rezaei-Hachesu, P. and Ferdousi, R. (2020), "Actionable knowledge with the help of method repositories", Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2020-0009