Access to research data is increasingly recognised as being crucial to reproducible research. It follows that the availability of any software used to process that data is similarly important. 41% of respondents to a research data management survey run by the University Library in July 2016 indicated that they write, develop or maintain programs, scripts or other code as part of [their] research.
Following good practice can make your software better, make your research more reproducible, help you to demonstrate impact, and save you effort.
Good practice can include
- Placing code under version control
- Documenting software
- Testing software
- Sharing software
- Licensing software appropriately
- Providing information on how to cite software
- Archiving software in a suitable repository
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