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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
June 1, 2021

A peak into dataset re-use

One of the biggest incentives in academia is proof of the impact of your research. This often helps with promotion and tenure. Whilst measures like the impact factor have been repeatedly demonstrated to be compromisable, citations are…

Open research
January 25, 2021

Community-driven development at Figshare

We’re extremely fortunate at Figshare to have millions of users from a variety of backgrounds engaging with our platform. That might be as simple as downloading a PDF from a preprint server or uploading your code all the way…

Product development
January 12, 2021

Figshare product development 2020 – A year in review

In a year where we moved to full time home working for the entire Figshare dev team, that didn’t slow down the pace of development of the Figshare platform! We had another bumper year of…

Product development
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