A curated awesome list of Research Software Engineering (RSE) policies and guidelines. Inspired by these curated collections. Here we collect information about RSE policies and guidelines and advice about how to write and enact them. We also take a look at open source policies and guidelines.

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Collection of RSE guidelines containing recommendations and best practices for research software engineering in specific situations.

• Guide and checklists of the DLR Software Engineering Initiative
• Guidelines and checklists of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
• Guidelines on research software licensing and dissimination of GFZ Potsdam
• Guides and checklists of the Software Sustainability Institute
• Guides and checklists of the Netherlands eScience Center
• Software Assessment Guidelines of the Earth Science Information Partners
• Software Guidelines of the IPOL Journal
• Software Quality Guidelines of CLARIAH
• Practical guide to Software Management Plans

Collection of RSE policies, which are abstract and often formal rules for research software engineering.

• Caltech Copyright and Software Policy
• Richtlinie zur Entwicklung und zum Umgang mit Forschungssoftware am AWI
• Policy on Use and Licensing of Research Software of GFZ Potsdam
• Software Licensing and Copyright Policy for Research Software CODE @ MPI-M Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• TU Delft Research Software Policy
• University software policy of the University of Cambridge

No policies, no guidelines, but advice on how to write these documents.

• Checklist to Support the Helmholtz Centers in Implementing Policies on Sustainable Research Software
• Model Policy on Sustainable Software at the Helmholtz Centers
• Positionspapier: Umgang mit Forschungssoftware an der Universität Stuttgart (german only)
• Recommendations for the Implementation of Guidelines and Policies on Research Software Management at the Helmholtz Centers

Open source software and research software share many characteristics. Since there is no list about open source policies and guidelines in the research field we choose to mention it here. Research software engineering can learn a lot from the open source movement - also regarding policy and guideline development.

• ASTRON Open Source Policy
• ESA Open Source Policy
• Hinweise zur Entwicklung von Open-Source-Software an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
• Nutzung von Open-Source-Software im DLR
• Open Source Policy of Aalto Scientific Computing
• Open-Source Software Policy of the Finnish Meteorological Institute
• Open Source Software Policy of UNT Libraries
• (the struggle) Towards an open source policy

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