Open Source

UCL has a long history of open-source software development and open research. Openness and inclusion form part of UCL's core values.

These pages are dedicated to supporting and promoting open-source software and materials by UCL staff and students. We are also in the process of building an Open Source Programme Office at UCL. For open research, the library has a dedicated Office for Open Science and Scholarship.

Looking for advice?

We have a few guides and links that you may find useful. In particular, UCL’s position on open source software licenses.

Also in these pages you will find:

Announcements of Activities & events that are happening in UCL (or nearby) related to open source.
News related to Open Source that is of interest to the UCL community.
Work done to create and consolidate the Open Source Programme Office, including talks given at conferences and funding proposals.

Our news page is available as an RSS feed, and our upcoming events as a published calendar.

Showcase

Here are some of the open-source software projects in the UCL community that have a good OSSF Scorecard aggregate score:

neuroinformatics-unit/movement

UCL-ARC/research-software-practices

ucl-MIRSG/ansible-collection-infra

heracles-ec/heracles

glass-dev/glass

neuroinformatics-unit/datashuttle

Latest News

📆 2025-10-17 - The BrainGlobe Initiative wins 2025 International Prize
📆 2025-07-15 - Survey on your perspectives on contributing to open source projects in academia

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