Make finding your software easy

VU Amsterdam endorses the UNL Code of Ethical research and expects that all research conducted by its researchers will be stored securely and remain transparent and verifiable for the period appropriate to the discipline(s) and methodology concerned.

This means that you should:

* Archive your software:

- This can be as simple as zipping your code together with your data and archiving them together

- Or for example making a software release and archiving via OSF, FigShare-version control integrations or zenodo-GitHub integrations

* Register the research software in PURE, the Current Research Information System (CRIS) of the VU, to ensure a connection between the software, the VU and you. This allows for evaluation, recognition and rewards.

* Optionally make it easy for the scientific community to use and find your research software through generic or discipline-specific registries (also known as catalogues or “yellow pages”).

- An extensive list of research software registries is maintained by the Netherlands eScience Center.

- Examples of recommended registries are PyPI (for python), CRAN (for R), Research Software Directory (generic, available via VUnetID)