The Institute for Research Software, previously the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI), strengthens research by advancing essential software and empowering the people behind it.
Use this short, free online tool from the Institute for Research Software to assess the sustainability of your research software project and identify areas you may want to strengthen. You will need to fill in a quick, 15-minute form and a report will be generated and emailed to you with sustainability advice that is tailored to your project:
- What your software does
- Documentation
- Availability of your software
- Open standards
- Installing the binary
- Support
- Plans for the future
- Source code structure
- Portability
- Copyright
- Building from source
- Testing
- Community
- Licences
- Contributor policy
Free or paid for:
Free
Product Features
- 15 minute questionnaire
Applicable Disciplines
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Computer Sciences
- Energy
- Health Professions
- Material Science
- Neuroscience
- Physics and Astronomy
- Veterinary
- Arts and Humanities
- Chemical Engineering
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Engineering
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Mathematics
- Nursing
- Psychology
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Chemistry
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Environmental Science
- Medicine
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Social Sciences
Terms & Conditions
If you would like a more thorough evaluation, you will need to contact the SSI via their helpdesk.