CODE beyond FAIR: a roadmap for reusable research software
- Roberto Di Cosmo
- Sabrina Granger
- Konrad Hinsen
- Nicolas Jullien
- Daniel Le Berre
- Violaine Louvet
- Camille Maumet
- Clémentine Maurice
- Raphaël Monat
- Nicolas P. Rougier
2026-03-12
FAIR principles are a set of guidelines aiming at simplifying the distribution of scientific data to enhance reuse and reproducibility. This article focuses on research software , which significantly differs from data in its living nature, and its relationship with free and open-source software. We provide a tiered roadmap to improve the state of research software, which takes into account the full range of stakeholders in the research software ecosystem: all scientific staff – regardless of prior software engineering training – but also institutions, funders, libraries and publishers.