Figshare is a repository where users can make their data, papers, code, media and other research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
Research outputs can be shared privately with collaborators or made public in the name of open research or to comply with funder and publisher mandates. All research outputs made public receive a DOI making them citable with the most liberal Creative Commons license where possible.
“Figshare wants to open up scientific research and data to the world.”
WIRED
Sharing data on figshare helps make it for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) and helps researchers comply with the increasing number of open data mandates around the world.
Who uses figshare
The rise of open research
As governments and funders of research see the benefit of open content, the creation of recommendations, mandates and enforcement of mandates are coming thick and fast. Figshare is leading the way in enabling academics, publishers and institutions to easily adhere to these principles in the most intuitive and efficient manner.
Visual presentation competition provides platform for engaging with theses
The objective is to encourage students to consider how they would communicate their research in a succinct and effective way.
An all-in-one institutional repository: Loughborough University’s DSpace migration
Loughborough University implemented and configured Figshare to be used as a data repository.
Learn more about figshare
Engaging with the research community on open research
Dr Marie Nugent, Public Engagement Manager at the University of Leicester, delivers a webinar on her experiences with sharing her research as a researcher and her knowledge of engaging with the research community in her current role.
Figshare’s API: a demonstration of its functionality
Figshare’s CTO, Adi Enasoaie, demonstrated figshare’s robust API, covering the basics of its documentation using Swagger and the possibilities when it comes to pushing and pulling content into figshare, the applications and integrations that have been created using it, and more.
The State of Open Data 2019 Webinar
Join Joris van Rossum, STM Research Data Director, Grace Baynes, VP of Research Data and Product Development Springer Nature, Emily Farrell, Library Sales Executive, MIT Press, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Publisher, Open Research PLOS and Mark Hahnel, Founder of figshare.
Around the world, people use figshare
