In principle, Open Code can be used in your own research in two ways: Firstly, by actively using Open Code from others, and secondly, by producing Open Code yourself.

Possibilities to use Open Code from third parties are:

• to reuse the Open Code of others for your own research.
• to learn from the Open Code of others,
• reproducing the research results of others thanks to Open Code.

Producing Open Code yourself can look like this in practice:

• to use open programming languages yourself,
• to produce code together with others,
• seeing code as part of making your own research reproducible