This extensive feature allows a user to “follow” many different aspects across the platform. This might mean updates from a particular author or group. Here’s a full list of the things you can keep track of:
Portal page
Group page
Category page
Main category
Subsets
Search term
Filters
Authors
Collection
Search & Filters
Projects
Search & Filters
Portal page
When on any of these entities, you’ll see the ability to follow, e.g. saved searches (which also now build a URL as you add to them): https://figshare.com/search?q=%3Acategory%3A%20%22Stem%20Cells%22&searchMode=1&licenses=1%2C2&types=2%2C4%2C5%2C
When you have some follow sets, you can manage them under “Account settings”. 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 50 sets maximum and receive up to 10 sets by email in a daily or weekly digest.
E.g. https://figshare.com/rss/general?search=%3Acategory%3A%20%22Stem%20Cells%22&types=2%2C4%2C5%2C9
The functionality is live on the site now, so get following!
You can also see this feature across all of the repositories we are running for institutions, publishers, and funders.