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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The open research data space is picking up pace on all fronts at the moment. There has been an upswell in the focus on data from traditional academic publishers as well as recent policy pushes…

Last week saw two releases from organisations which will have a big impact on the next decade in academic research. Following on from the US Government’s OPEN data policy in January, the National Institute of Health (NIH)…

Guest post by Mayank Kejriwal. Publications are the bread and butter of academics and researchers across disciplines, nationalities and institutions. Non-linear variants notwithstanding, the typical academic pursuit consists in devising a research question, doing the…