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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
August 7, 2020

Research practices in the wake of COVID-19

By Grace Baynes, VP, Research Data and New Product Development, Springer Nature, and Mark Hahnel, CEO and Founder of Figshare. Cross posted from the Springer Nature Blog. The current climate has put a spotlight onto the value and…

Open researchThe State of Open Data
August 3, 2020

Why fast but good publishing matters

By Mark Hahnel A large number of funders around the world now mandate publishing data needed to reproduce findings from the research they fund – at the same time as the paper is published. This is a change…

Open research
June 8, 2020

Exploring re-use of datasets in institutional data repositories

As a general rule, academics should cite sources any time that you use someone else’s words, methods, data or ideas in a piece of your own research. With data and code, we see many ways…

Open research
May 18, 2020

Research Data. Is it being cited?

Recently, we partnered with our sister company Dimensions to offer daily citations updates on any object within any Figshare instance. Our State of Open Data report that comes out each year has consistently highlighted that increased impact and visibility…

Open research
April 23, 2020

Searchable citations on Figshare

Another major feature as part of the April 2020 production release is something we have been working on for a while and we’re very pleased to say is ready to go live. At Figshare, we’re…

Product development
April 2, 2020

Credit for the institutional data repository

As well as providing data repository functionality for organisations ranging from the NIH to Springer Nature, we also have a free product offering, which we refer to internally as ‘figshare.com.’ This allows researchers from around…

Open research
March 9, 2020

Who checks? Who pays? How much?

In the last decade, we’ve seen repeated reports of highlighting a lack of reproducibility and replicability in published academic research results. This has led to institutional, publisher and most significantly funder mandates for research data…

Open research
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