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University of the Witwatersrand chooses Figshare to support its open data goals
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that the University of the Witwatersrand Library has chosen Figshare to support its research community with archiving, publishing, sharing and promoting their datasets.
Read MoreFigshare researcher spotlight: James Bird, The University of Manchester
As part of a Figshare researcher spotlight series, we’ll be sharing the experiences of researchers who used their Figshare-powered institutional repositories to support their research projects and research management process. Our first spotlight comes from James Bird, who utilized the University of Manchester’s Figshare-powered data repository and the library’s wider research data management support services…
Read MoreFigshare & the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: Progress towards enhanced NIH data sharing
Generalist repositories play a critical role in the data sharing landscape, but in order to truly realize the benefits of open data, this critical infrastructure needs consistent schemas, metadata and metrics across repositories. As such, we are delighted that the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) is funding work to achieve exactly this under the Generalist…
Read MoreBIMM University chooses Figshare to showcase its non-traditional research and creative practitioner outputs
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that BIMM University has chosen Figshare to support the sharing, showcasing and management of its non-traditional research outputs (NTROs). BIMM University is a leading specialist creative arts institution. It prepares students for a sustainable career in the creative industries, with students studying…
Read MoreThe Institute of Art, Design and Technology launches a Figshare institutional repository to share, showcase and manage their creative and scholarly outputs
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) is launching a new Figshare-powered institutional repository to share its creative research outputs. Using Figshare, IADT will be able to effectively share and showcase its abundance of arts-focused research outputs, increasing…
Read MoreUniversity of Technology Sydney chooses Figshare to drive the discoverability of non-traditional research outputs
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has chosen Figshare to support them in sharing, showcasing and managing their research reports and non-traditional research outputs. UTS – Australia’s leading technology university – will use its Figshare repository and its…
Read MoreCelebrating two years of Figshare plus
We launched Figshare plus in late 2021 in response to the growing need we observed to share large datasets, both for reuse and to meet funder and publisher data sharing requirements. As the size of research data has grown with advances in computing power and scientific techniques, we found that the 20GB limit available on figshare.com, our…
Read MoreThe State of Open Data 2023: Key takeaways for Librarians
The State of Open Data 2023 was recently released by Figshare, Digital Science and Springer Nature. The report presents the findings of a global survey that saw over 6000 respondents. Now in its eighth year, it is the longest-running longitudinal study of researchers’ attitudes towards and experiences of open data. Read the full report. This blog…
Read MoreHow leading publishers are embracing open data
The 2022 State of Open Data survey found that the majority of researchers are looking to their publishers for support with sharing their data and making it openly available. Publishers globally are implementing different strategies and experimenting with new approaches to both support their authors and embrace the tide of open data that is sweeping the research…
Read MoreFigshare and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI): What we’ve achieved and where we’re heading
At the beginning of 2022, we announced that Figshare had been awarded to participate in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative. The aim of the program is to provide funding for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the data sharing needs of research communities and meet the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories. GREI is sponsored by the NIH…
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