Sample Open Source Software Catalog
Sample Research OSS Catalog
The University of Texas at Austin produces open source software to empower research. These projects are created and maintained by researchers across many disciplines. These projects span a multitude of research areas and public-interest applications, reflecting the breadth of innovation and collaboration on campus. Together, they demonstrate UT Austin’s commitment to open knowledge, reproducible research, and community-driven development.
A representative sample of open source software projects active at the University.
Would you like to add your research oss project?
If you would like to add your project, please let us know! If you have questions about the projects or would like to connect with the researchers behind the projects, please contact us at ospo@utlists.utexas.edu. Thank you!
UT resources
Grant facilities language for UTAustin-OSPO
The University of Texas Open Source Program Office (UTAustin-OSPO) is a center for open source activity, connection, and training across the University of Texas at Austin. The UTAustin-OSPO helps grow the UT open source communities and provide long-term open source software connections for researchers through a diverse program of training, high-level consultations, and best practice documentation. The UTAustin-OSPO is a campus-wide collaboration lead by staff at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
More specifically, this University-wide support institute offers a variety of training courses open to students, faculty, and researchers from introductory material on the why’s and how’s behind open source to more advanced courses on using containerization to each distributed, open source software development. We offer support through the existing help desks at the UT Libraries, UT Central IT, and TACC, in addition to Best Practice Documents on our website, https://opensource.utexas.edu/. In addition, we can work directly with departments and development teams to help guide you to resources or support in-house activities, such as hackathons. For more information, please visit the website.
Discovery to Impact
Are you a UT researcher, staff member, or student with an idea or technology you think has potential? You’ve come to the right place. Discovery to Impact can help.
Discovery to Impact is the connection between campus innovators and industry. We cultivate ideas, uncover pathways to market, and foster commercial collaborations that translate academic research into services, treatments, and products that benefit society.
UT Libraries Resources and Services
Texas Data Repository
DMPTool
The DMPTool (Data Management Plan Tool) is a great resource for researchers who need to craft a data management and sharing plan at the outset of a research project. It is available to faculty, staff, and student researchers at UT Austin and facilitates the process of creating plans that comply with research funding agency DMP requirements for grant applications, including those which require sharing of research software as open source code. The UT Libraries is the point of contact for this platform and can provide assistance with data management plan preparation.
Open Source community websites
US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI)
URSSI's mission is to improve the recognition , development, and use , of software for a more sustainable research enterprise.
FOSS Foundation Directory
Free and open-source software (FOSS)
Welcome to the FOSS Foundations Metadata directory! We are eager to collaborate with academic researchers and open source practitioners alike on curating rich metadata about the many excellent non-profit Foundations that either host or help open source projects succeed.
CURIOSS
CURIOSS is a Community for University and Research Institution OSPOs.
The UT-OSPO is a proud contributor to the CURIOSS resources room, which is dedicated to supporting researchers and open source software. Our goals are to provide support and to build the collective capacity of members who are creating, managing and sustaining Open Source Program Offices in universities and research institutions around the world. Dr. Newell serves as a member of the CURIOSS Advisory Board. Please connect with her if you have any questions or would like access to CURIOSS resources.
The Software Heritage Foundation
Collects and preserves software in source code form, because software embodies our technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it. If you would like to curate your software, please connect with the Software Heritage Foundation.