Blog

From our latest product developments to welcoming new partners into our community and opinion pieces from open research experts, our blog is the ideal place to keep up to date with all things Figshare.

All
  • All
  • Figshare plus
  • News
  • Open research
  • Product development
  • The State of Open Data
September 24, 2024

Queen’s University Belfast to launch Figshare-powered repository to share, showcase and manage its research data and theses

We’re pleased to announce that Queen’s University Belfast has chosen Figshare as its new repository platform to store, showcase and manage its research data and theses outputs. Queen’s – a prestigious Russell Group UK university and ranked in the top…

News
September 19, 2024

The University of Limpopo chooses Figshare to support its research excellence strategy

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that the University of Limpopo has chosen Figshare to facilitate the collection, management, sharing and preservation of its research data. The…

News
September 10, 2024

Appalachian State University chooses Figshare as its new institutional repository platform

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Appalachian State University has chosen Figshare as its new institutional repository platform to share, showcase and manage its research outputs….

News
June 18, 2024

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.

News
May 22, 2024

Figshare 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…

Open research
May 7, 2024

Figshare & 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,…

Open research
April 25, 2024

BIMM 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…

News
March 7, 2024

The 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…

News
February 26, 2024

University 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…

News
February 13, 2024

Celebrating 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…

Figshare plus
Load More loader