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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Data publishing is the biggest ROI in research today

By Mark Hahnel, Figshare CEO and Founder This week is International “Love Data Week”. Love Data Week is an international celebration of data. The theme this year is Data: Agent of Change. After a decade of running Figshare…

Middlebury College announces the launch of their new Institutional Repository

Middlebury College announces the launch of their new Institutional Repository Middlebury College is a liberal arts college and, founded in 1800, was the first operating college in the state of Vermont. When looking for a…

Leeds Beckett University launches Figshare-powered repository

Leeds Beckett University (LBU), in partnership with Figshare, announces the launch of a new institutional repository: The Thesis and Research Data Repository, available at https://figshare.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/. Research at Leeds Beckett is growing, with subjects as diverse as Sport, Health,…