Our vision: Research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognised and valued as fundamental and vital to research worldwide

You can become involved by:

• Joining task forces focused on specific activities
• Receiving updates through our regular newsletter
• Encouraging your organisation to become an Organisational Member or make a donation
• Helping to raise awareness of the importance of software in research through use of ReSA resources
• Connecting with other community members at our events
• Joining the ReSA Slack for decision-makers and key influencers to share what’s happening in the community
• Attending our Research Software Community Forum
• Providing information on new funding calls to the Research Software Funding Opportunities
• Contributing resources and guidelines; ideas for task forces, events and news; or if you have other ideas for ReSA then let us know.

We look forward to welcoming you!

A UK survey of 1,000 randomly chosen researchers showed that more than 90% of researchers acknowledged software as being important for their own research, and about 70% of researchers said that their research would not be possible without software [1]. A study of Nature papers from Jan-March 2016 reveals that “32 of the 40 papers examined mention software, and the 32 papers contain 211 mentions of distinct pieces of software, for an average of 6.5 mentions per paper.” [2].

[1] Hettrick. S. J., et al. (2014). UK Research Software Survey 2014. Data set doi:10.5281/zenodo.14809

[2] Nangia, Udit; Katz, Daniel S. (2017): Understanding Software in Research: Initial Results from Examining Nature and a Call for Collaboration. doi:10.1109/eScience.2017.78