A curated awesome list of Research Software Engineering (RSE) policies and guidelines. Inspired by these curated collections. Here we collect information about RSE policies and guidelines and advice about how to write and enact them. We also take a look at open source policies and guidelines.
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Collection of RSE guidelines containing recommendations and best practices for research software engineering in specific situations.
- Guide and checklists of the DLR Software Engineering Initiative
- Guides and checklists of the Software Sustainability Institute
- Guides and checklists of the Netherlands eScience Center
- Software Assessment Guidelines of the Earth Science Information Partners
- Software Guidelines of the IPOL Journal
- Software Quality Guidelines of CLARIAH
Collection of RSE policies, which are abstract and often formal rules for research software engineering.
- Caltech Copyright and Software Policy
- Software Licensing and Copyright Policy for Research Software CODE @ MPI-M
- TU Delft Research Software Policy
No policies, no guidelines, but advice on how to write these documents.
- Checklist to Support the Helmholtz Centers in Implementing Policies on Sustainable Research Software
- Model Policy on Sustainable Software at the Helmholtz Centers
- Positionspapier: Umgang mit Forschungssoftware an der Universität Stuttgart (german only)
- Recommendations for the Implementation of Guidelines and Policies on Research Software Management at the Helmholtz Centers
Open source software and research software share many characteristics. Since there is no list about open source policies and guidelines in the research field we choose to mention it here. Research software engineering can learn a lot from the open source movement - also regarding policy and guideline development.
- ASTRON Open Source Policy
- ESA Open Source Policy
- Hinweise zur Entwicklung von Open-Source-Software an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
- Nutzung von Open-Source-Software im DLR
- Open Source Policy of Aalto Scientific Computing
- Open Source Software Policy of UNT Libraries
- (the struggle) Towards and open source policy
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