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Recently, we partnered with our sister company Dimensions to offer daily citations updates on any object within any Figshare instance. Our State of Open Data report that comes out each year has consistently highlighted that increased impact and visibility is the number one driver (78% on respondents value data citations as much or more than a paper citation) are the…

As well as providing data repository functionality for organisations ranging from the NIH to Springer Nature, we also have a free product offering, which we refer to internally as ‘figshare.com.’ This allows researchers from around the world to make data available at no cost, get a DOI for their published research, and track the impact.…

In the last decade, we’ve seen repeated reports of highlighting a lack of reproducibility and replicability in published academic research results. This has led to institutional, publisher and most significantly funder mandates for research data being made openly available at the point of publication of the paper. Over 10 years, we have seen the ground…

The open research data space is picking up pace on all fronts at the moment. There has been an upswell in the focus on data from traditional academic publishers as well as recent policy pushes from the NIH draft policy and CODATA’s Beijing Declaration. The most obvious progress has come from the Data policy standardisation and implementation RDA interest…

Last week saw two releases from organisations which will have a big impact on the next decade in academic research. Following on from the US Government’s OPEN data policy in January, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has released their draft open data policy! The NIH is seeking public input on a trans-NIH data management and sharing policy…

Guest post by Mayank Kejriwal. Publications are the bread and butter of academics and researchers across disciplines, nationalities and institutions. Non-linear variants notwithstanding, the typical academic pursuit consists in devising a research question, doing the necessary background research, formulating and conducting experiments, and then writing it all up. The process is iterative and requires course…

In order to track the impact of research outputs, academia has made use of persistent identifiers (PIDs). A PID is a link that is managed by an organization, that will always lead to the research output, regardless of a domain change. Different types of content have different PIDs. We love PID, like ORCID or GRID,…