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

In line with this mission, ReSA offers opportunities for community members representing multiple stakeholders to work together to achieve shared goals. As per our Code of Conduct, ReSA welcomes and encourages participation by people of all backgrounds and identities.

You can become involved by:

• Attending our monthly Research Softaware Community Forum
• Joining task forces focused on specific activities
• Receiving updates through our regular newsletter
• 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
• Contributing ideas for task forces, events, newsletter items, or if you have other ideas for ReSA, 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