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+title: "Helmholtz RSD now open for all Helmholtz members"
+title_image: pexels-cottonbro-5483071.jpg
+date: 2023-02-17
+authors:
+ - meessen
+layout: blogpost
+categories:
+  - News
+tags:
+  - Announcement
+  - Community
+  - Cloud Services
+excerpt: >
+  HIFIS launches the teaser for the upcoming Helmholtz Research Software Directory.
+---
+
+## Promote your Research Software in the Helmholtz RSD
+
+{:.treat-as-figure}
+{:.float-right}
+{:.p-5}
+![RSD Screenshot]({% link assets/img/posts/2023-02-17-RSD/rsd_screenshot.png%})
+
+After six months of testing, HIFIS can finally open the Helmholtz Research Software Directory (RSD) for all Helmholtz members. If you have an account at a Helmholtz Institution, you can now login to the RSD via the Helmholtz AAI, and start adding your Research Software:
+
+<center>
+<a alt="Link to the HIFIS RSD" href="https://helmholtz.software" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg m-1" target="_blank">https://helmholtz.software</a>
+</center>
+
+### What does the RSD offer?
+
+The Helmholtz RSD is **tailored to Research Software Engineers and Researchers** that want to promote or discover research software. For RSEs,  we
+
+* offer an easy to use platform to present your software in an environment dedicated to research software
+* show where your software has already been mentioned in papers, talks or videos
+* relate your software to other software, projects or organisations
+* provide help to researchers to get your Software cited correctly
+* provide interested users a gateway to get started with your software
+* direct interested users to your code platform
+
+### Future plans
+
+The Helmholtz RSD is not yet finished and we just started our journey. We are constantly evaluating and further developing the platform. Please contact us via [support@hifis.net](mailto:{{ site.contact_mail }}) or open an issue in our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/hifis-net/RSD-as-a-service/issues) if you have suggestions, critics or anything else you would like to tell us.
+
+### Cooperation
+
+The Helmholtz Research Software Directory is an adaption of the [Research Software Directory](https://research-software-directory.org/), and we are closely collaborating with the upstream maintainers, the [Netherlands eScience Center](https://www.esciencecenter.nl/).
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