DFG signs ‘Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability’
By signing the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability, the DFG is strengthening the reuse of research software.
The Declaration contains twelve recommendations which seek to optimise the way research software is handled by funding organisations.
By signing the “Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability” (“Amsterdam Declaration” for short), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is underpinning its international commitment to improving the reusability of research software. Aimed at funding organisations in science and the humanities, the Amsterdam Declaration pursues the goal of strengthening the sustainability of research software based on financial, organisational and policy measures.
The Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin also supports making research software generally accessible as part of its open access strategy and with regard to good academic practice (GWP). Thus, ‘to make publicly available, in the spirit of open science and taking into account the Open Access Policy of the university as well as Section 4 para. 5 BerlHG, research results, data and software as well as publications - to the extent legally possible and at the earliest possible. (§2 of the GWP statute, guiding principles).
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