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Ten years of Figshare – What we’ve achieved and what’s next
A lot has changed in the field of science in the last decade: the first photo of a black hole was taken, artificial intelligence began having demonstrable applications in our everyday lives, and NASA landed on an asteroid. These achievements were made possible by building upon scientific research made openly available. There has been a…
Read MoreFigshare awarded NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative grant to enhance functionality for research community
Figshare is pleased to participate in a new NIH initiative, the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). GREI is led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and provides funding for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the needs of research communities and the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories. Generalist and institutional repositories play a…
Read MoreThe State of Open Data in 2021: concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing
“Researchers largely want to share their data, but the current system fails to support or adequately reward them for doing so and we are still a long way from a world where it is the norm to share fully-curated data”, argues Ginny Barbour of Open Access Australasia in her essay, How open data can help validate…
Read MoreIntroducing Figshare plus
A FAIR repository for big datasets Figshare has been helping researchers make their data publicly available for more than 10 years, over which time we have watched data sharing grow across disciplines as funders and publishers require data sharing and researchers seek to get credit for all the products of their research. While we will…
Read MoreA peak into dataset re-use
One of the biggest incentives in academia is proof of the impact of your research. This often helps with promotion and tenure. Whilst measures like the impact factor have been repeatedly demonstrated to be compromisable, citations are still recognised by researchers as the gold standard for academic impact. With citations of non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) such a…
Read MoreCommunity-driven development at Figshare
We’re extremely fortunate at Figshare to have millions of users from a variety of backgrounds engaging with our platform. That might be as simple as downloading a PDF from a preprint server or uploading your code all the way up to the administrators of repositories from some of the biggest technical universities in the world and even looking at research data…
Read MoreFigshare product development 2020 – A year in review
In a year where we moved to full time home working for the entire Figshare dev team, that didn’t slow down the pace of development of the Figshare platform! We had another bumper year of changes, from exciting new features to ensuring regulatory and legal compliance. Read on to find out more. Accessibility The…
Read MoreResearch practices in the wake of COVID-19
By Grace Baynes, VP, Research Data and New Product Development, Springer Nature, and Mark Hahnel, CEO and Founder of Figshare. Cross posted from the Springer Nature Blog. The current climate has put a spotlight onto the value and importance of data sharing and curation and good data management for boosting the reproducibility and reliability of research. Its value…
Read MoreWhy fast but good publishing matters
By Mark Hahnel A large number of funders around the world now mandate publishing data needed to reproduce findings from the research they fund – at the same time as the paper is published. This is a change for academics. We have found through our State of Open Data reports that the majority of researchers are new to the concept…
Read MoreExploring re-use of datasets in institutional data repositories
As a general rule, academics should cite sources any time that you use someone else’s words, methods, data or ideas in a piece of your own research. With data and code, we see many ways in which re-use occurs, whether it be directly incorporating the data into your own raw data, running someone else’s analysis…
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