Comparing Project and Collection features
At a high level, Projects are a place to collaborate and aggregate private and public items that are related. Collections are a way to group items together in order to provide one citation – for example this is useful when reusing datasets for new research. Ultimately, both Projects and Collections have multiple use cases!
| Projects | Collections | |
| What items can be added? | Only those owned by Project members Private or Public items |
Any item from across Figshare repositories Public items only |
| Visibility options | Private or Public | Private or Public |
| Receive a DOI | No | Yes |
| Have versioning | No | Yes |
| Metrics | Views | Views, Citation count, Altmetric badge |
| Enable collaboration | Yes – invite viewers or collaborators | No – Only one owner/editor |
| Have commenting feature | Yes | No |
