Digital preservation is a crucial undertaking for institutions managing digital collections to ensure long-term accessibility and integrity for future use. The growth of digital data publishing adds a new dimension to digital preservation. Institutions must consider the larger file sizes of research datasets, new platforms to manage the records, and thus new workflows to integrate…

This Figshare case study aims to explore the successful implementation of a Figshare-powered data repository for the University of Malta (UM). The collaboration between the UM Library and Figshare has enabled the University to effectively support its research data management initiatives. The UM comprises fourteen faculties, several interdisciplinary institutes, centres and schools, and a junior…

In The State of Open Data 2023, over 6000 researchers were surveyed globally and almost three-quarters of them said that they had never received support with data sharing.  As open data policies and mandates have increased globally, the pressure on libraries to provide a robust research data management support offering for their researchers is increasing. …

Erasmus University Rotterdam has used the issue of open access as an opportunity to engage with researchers, finding new ways of helping them to share their work with the world. Erasmus – ranked globally among the top 100 universities – is among a growing number of institutions worldwide that is committed to data sharing and…

In this case study, Jonathan Petters, Assistant Director of Data Management & Curation Services, and Shane Coleman, Data Curator, of Virginia Tech discuss the benefit of a strong user community and why a move from open source was right for them. Visit their repository at data.lib.vt.edu. In 2016, Virginia Tech University Libraries began offering a…

A look at La Trobe University’s Institutional Repository powered by Figshare This case study explores the evolution of La Trobe University’s instance of Figshare from a data repository to Open@LaTrobe (OPAL) – an institutional repository that supports data, publications, special collections, educational resources, and more as well as their process for rolling it out across…

Background Loughborough University implemented and configured Figshare to be used as a data repository in 2014. In 2018, work began to restructure the data repository to be used as an all-in-one multidisciplinary institutional repository that included a wide range of research output types including data, journal papers, theses and media. This required a collaborative rethink…

Key Points: Dawne uses Edge Hill’s Figshare to store and share her visual research (including posters and Sketchnoting). Liam has created subgroups to host conference materials, particularly for those that have been moved online during the pandemic. The National Teaching Repository is being hosted on Edge Hill’s Figshare and includes content submitted by teaching faculty…

A case study of team collaboration at De Montfort University Key points: Professor Raghu Raghavan, Dr. Nadia Svirydzenka, and Dr. Amanda Wilson and their colleagues are collecting narrative interviews and visual documentation of how rural and urban communities in Kerala, India understand mental health literacy using cross-discipline collaboration. A Figshare project space has been created…

Monash University launched monash.figshare in April 2016. As with other institutions, the initial collection was seeded by PLoS items which was a great impetus and showed what monash.figshare could offer users. Armed with boundless enthusiasm and the strong encouragement of the Library leadership, a small team set out to convince staff, researchers and doctoral students…