Building visualizations from FAIR data on Figshare

Recently, we’ve been looking at the reusability of data in line with the FAIR principles. The ‘R’ of FAIR stands for Reusable and refers to data whereby the: “R1. meta(data) have a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes. R1.1. (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license. R1.2. (meta)data are associated with their…

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New funding information on Figshare items

We’re excited to announce an enhancement to an existing feature and extension of our integration with sister product Dimensions, which allows Figshare users to add funding information to their items and collections. Whilst there has been a funding field on the platform for many years it has been solely a free text field. With the…

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Follow the research you care about

This extensive feature allows a user to “follow” many different aspects across the platform. This might mean updates from a particular author or group. Here’s a full list of the things you can keep track of: Portal pageGroup pageCategory pageMain categorySubsetsSearch termFiltersAuthorsCollectionSearch & FiltersProjectsSearch & FiltersPortal page‍ When on any of these entities, you’ll see…

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