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The State of Open Data

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

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