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October 21, 2022

University of Limerick launches Figshare-powered institutional repository

The University of Limerick (UL) announces the launch of a new Figshare-powered Institutional repository. Founded in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, and a university since 1989, UL is an independent, internationally-focused…

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August 31, 2022

Halfway to happiness – what the OSTP update means in the grand scheme

By Mark Hahnel, Figshare Founder and CEO It is very hard for any academic to argue with the concept of equitable access and equitable ability to publish research. The Office of Science and Technology Policy…

Open research

July 14, 2022

The National Teaching Repository: making an impact globally

Educators who share their successful teaching resources via the Figshare-powered National Teaching Repository (NTR) are having a positive impact on other teachers – and their students – right around the world. At this year’s UNESCO…

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July 12, 2022

Health Research Alliance (HRA) Open launches ORCID integration

HRA Open member-funded awardees can now log in to the HRA Open application using their ORCID login details. The Health Research Alliance (HRA) has partnered with Figshare and the National Library of Medicine to implement…

Open research

July 7, 2022

SciDataCon 2022: three takeaways from the State of Open Data 2021 panel discussion

This blog post is crossposted on Springer Nature’s blog, The Source. We were delighted to participate in SciDataCon 2022, the theme of which was Data to Improve our World. Figshare’s Founder and CEO Mark Hahnel led…

The State of Open Data

April 28, 2022

New Administrative Batch Management in Figshare

The ever-evolving list of content types and workflows being handled by Figshare requires an ever-improving product and the April 2022 release brings the perfect example of this. We‚Äôre pleased to announce the launch of in-browser…

Product development

April 6, 2022

Ten years of Figshare – What we’ve achieved and what’s next

A lot has changed in the field of science in the last decade: the first photo of a black hole was taken, artificial intelligence began having demonstrable applications in our everyday lives, and NASA landed…

Open research

January 26, 2022

Figshare awarded NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative grant to enhance functionality for research community

Figshare is pleased to participate in a new NIH initiative, the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). GREI is led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and provides funding for repositories to grow their functionality and…

News

November 30, 2021

The State of Open Data in 2021: concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing

“Researchers largely want to share their data, but the current system fails to support or adequately reward them for doing so and we are still a long way from a world where it is the…

The State of Open Data

October 14, 2021

Introducing Figshare plus

A FAIR repository for big datasets Figshare has been helping researchers make their data publicly available for more than 10 years, over which time we have watched data sharing grow across disciplines as funders and…

Figshare plus