Open research
Figshare & the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: Supporting research transparency and reproducibility
Written by Lisa Curtin and Ana Van Gulick The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), an ongoing NIH Office of Data Science Strategy-sponsored program, has entered its fourth year. GREI has brought Figshare together with 6 other generalist repositories (Dataverse, Dryad, OSF, Mendeley Data, Vivli, & Zenodo) to work towards establishing common standards for an interoperable…
Read MoreStrategic research data management: big files, cost optimization, and deposit policies with Figshare
Blog post written by Adrian Clark and Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Figshare product specialists. Today, we’re diving deeper into how Figshare can not only help you manage and optimize costs associated with your research data, but also where establishing effective deposit policies and guidelines within your institutional repository can help provide a framework for what and where…
Read MoreFigshare researcher spotlight: James Bird, The University of Manchester
As part of a Figshare researcher spotlight series, we’ll be sharing the experiences of researchers who used their Figshare-powered institutional repositories to support their research projects and research management process. Our first spotlight comes from James Bird, who utilized the University of Manchester’s Figshare-powered data repository and the library’s wider research data management support services…
Read MoreFigshare & the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative: Progress towards enhanced NIH data sharing
Generalist repositories play a critical role in the data sharing landscape, but in order to truly realize the benefits of open data, this critical infrastructure needs consistent schemas, metadata and metrics across repositories. As such, we are delighted that the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) is funding work to achieve exactly this under the Generalist…
Read MoreHow leading publishers are embracing open data
The 2022 State of Open Data survey found that the majority of researchers are looking to their publishers for support with sharing their data and making it openly available. Publishers globally are implementing different strategies and experimenting with new approaches to both support their authors and embrace the tide of open data that is sweeping the research…
Read MoreFigshare and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI): What we’ve achieved and where we’re heading
At the beginning of 2022, we announced that Figshare had been awarded to participate in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative. The aim of the program is to provide funding for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the data sharing needs of research communities and meet the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories. GREI is sponsored by the NIH…
Read MoreData publishing is the biggest ROI in research today
By Mark Hahnel, Figshare CEO and Founder This week is International “Love Data Week”. Love Data Week is an international celebration of data. The theme this year is Data: Agent of Change. After a decade of running Figshare (a data publishing repository), I think the biggest cultural, and impactful change of the last 10 years to be ‘encouraging…
Read MoreHalfway to happiness – what the OSTP update means in the grand scheme
By Mark Hahnel, Figshare Founder and CEO It is very hard for any academic to argue with the concept of equitable access and equitable ability to publish research. The Office of Science and Technology Policy recently released their new memorandum outlining Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay. It is already being ‘Hailed as…
Read MoreHealth 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 a new integration for member-funded awardees to log in to the HRA Open application using their ORCID login details. HRA Open is a valuable…
Read MoreTen 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 on an asteroid. These achievements were made possible by building upon scientific research made openly available. There has been a…
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