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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…

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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
November 23, 2023

The 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…

The State of Open Data
October 11, 2023

How 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…

Open research
May 30, 2023

Figshare 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…

Open research
April 21, 2023

Qatar National Library launches Manara, a new Figshare-powered repository for Qatar

Qatar National Library has launched Manara – Qatar Research Repository, an open platform that captures, preserves and provides access to scholarly research created in the country. It aims to promote global visibility and the discoverability of Qatar’s…

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