Government, funders & nonprofits
Share, showcase and track research funded by your organization.
We support a growing community of government agencies, funders and nonprofits in meeting their goals for data management and sharing with policy-compliant infrastructure
- Help your funded researchers comply with open data policies
- Assign unique persistent identifiers (PIDs) to outputs
- Openly publish files of any type
- Report on reuse and impact
Trusted, reliable and policy-compliant repository infrastructure
Take the complexity out of compliance for researchers looking to comply with open research policies, including those from the OSTP, NIH, UKRI and ARC
Accept any file type, including large files, and support research from any discipline in any output in a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) way
Support the use of common PIDs for people, organizations, funding and the creation and use of DOIs and output relationships for all submitted content
Provide usage metrics at the ouput and repository level, including views, downloads, citations and Altmetrics data
Easily comply with open research policies and guidance
- Provide a trusted and flexible organization-designated repository resource for your researchers and grantees
- Meet requirements for standardized metadata and persistent identifiers including authors, institutions and funding sources
- Quickly and easily make your research outputs available in a controlled, curated way
- Attribute a permanent, citable DataCite Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to outputs
- Track impact with usage metrics, citation counts and Altmetric attention data
- Link funding information and related publications directly to the research output on Figshare
- Assign open licenses allowing users to access, re-use and redistribute a work with few or no restrictions
Meeting the NIH and OSTP 'desirable characteristics for data repositories'
Funder data sharing policies have been expanding around the world and increasing the pressure on researchers and their institutions.
In the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical funder in the world, increased data sharing expectations for researchers in 2023. All federally funded researchers will eventually face data sharing expectations under an Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) policy going into effect at the end of 2025.
In this webinar we go over how Figshare meets the NIH and OSTP “desirable characteristics for data repositories.” We discuss both the global figshare.com repository and institutional repositories based on the Figshare platform.
Rethink the way you're sharing your research
To effectively share, showcase and manage their non-traditional research outputs, nonprofits and small research organizations use Figshare.
With DataCite DOIs, robust metadata and integrations with Altmetric and Dimensions for essential attention and citation data - using Figshare supports the effective publishing, promotion, tracking and analysis of your research outputs.
Webinar: Balancing data sovereignty and open access: a look into Cape Eleuthera Institute’s repository
Dr. Nick Higgs, Director of Research & Innovation at Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI), presents on how CEI has used its Figshare repository to showcase papers, data, and student research posters while complying with government data sovereignty regulations.
Nick highlights how a small research organization with limited resources has successfully used Figshare to organize and share its research on a global scale.
