How to Follow research you care about
The Follow feature allows you to “follow” many different content from across the platform and get notifications when new research is published. This might mean updates from a particular author or group. Look for the ‘+Follow’ link in the upper right part (usually) of any Figshare page.
Here’s a full list of the things you can keep track of:
- Portal page
- Group page
- Category page
- Main category
- Subsets
- Search query and/or filters
- Filters
- Authors
- Collections
- Projects
When on any of these entities, you’ll see the ability to follow. Here’s an example of a search you can follow (also note Figshare builds a URL you can bookmark or share): ‘https://figshare.com/search?q=%3Acategory%3A%20%22Stem%20Cells%22&searchMode=1&licenses=1%2C2&types=2%2C4%2C5%2C‘
When you have several ‘follows’ set, you can manage them by clicking your account icon in the upper right and selecting ‘Settings’ then ‘Notifications’. Under this section, you can label terms to be more manageable, search them, generate RSS links, unfollow, or be taken to a context-sensitive representation (e.g. followed authors will be taken to author page, search terms taken to search page). You can follow up to 50 sets and receive up to 10 sets by email in a daily or weekly digest.
The follow feature is available across all of the repositories we are running for institutions, publishers, and funders.
