Figshare
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Owner | Digital Science |
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Created by | Mark Hahnel |
URL | figshare |
Commercial | Yes |
Launched | 2011 |
Current status | Active |
Figshareis an onlineopen access repositorywhere researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos.[1]It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle ofopen data.Figshare is one of a number of portfolio businesses supported byDigital Science,[2]a subsidiary ofSpringer Nature.[3]
History
[edit]Figshare was launched in January 2011 by Mark Hahnel[4]and has been supported byDigital Sciencesince a January 2012 relaunch.[2]Hahnel first developed the platform as a personal custom solution for the organization and publication of diverse research products generated in support of hisPhDinstem cellbiology.[2]In January 2013, Figshare announced a partnership withPLOSto integrate Figshare data hosting, access, and visualization with their associated PLOS articles.[5]In September 2013, the service launched a hostedinstitutional repositoryservice.[1]In December 2013, they announced integration withImpactStoryto support the collection ofaltmetrics.[6]
Figshare also hosts the Reproducibility Collection as a founding member of The Reproducibility Initiative, which acts as an independent and blinded validator for replication of submitted data.[7]
Figshare releases 'The State of Open Data' each year to assess the changing academic landscape around open research.
Concept
[edit]Researchers can upload all of their research outputs to Figshare, thus making them publicly available. Users can upload files in any format,[8]and items are attributed aDOI.The current 'types' that can be chosen are figures, datasets, media (including video), papers (including pre-prints), posters, code, and filesets (groups of files).[9]All files are released under aCreative Commons license,CC-BY for most files and CC0 (public domain) for datasets.[1][10]Figshare allows researchers to publish negative data.[4][8]The withholding of negative publications is a widely known phenomenon that leads to a significant bias, often referred to as thefile drawer effect.[11]By encouraging publishing of figures, charts, and data, rather than being limited to the traditional entire 'paper', knowledge can be shared more quickly and effectively. Figshare also tracks the download statistics for hosted materials, acting in turn as a source foraltmetrics.[2]The main hosting mechanism for the platform isAmazon S3,with CLOCKSS[12]serving as an additional host for public content.[1]Both of these resources support backup and preservation via a distributedcloud computingnetwork.
Integration with other platforms
[edit]Figshare features integration withORCID,[13]Symplectic Elements,[14][15]can import items from GitHub,[16]and is a source tracked by Altmetric.[17]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcdHane, Paula."Sharing Research Data—New figshare For Institutions".Against the Grain.
- ^abcdPiwowar, Heather (10 January 2013)."Altmetrics: Value all research products"(PDF).Nature.493(7431): 159.Bibcode:2013Natur.493..159P.doi:10.1038/493159a.PMID23302843.S2CID205075867.
- ^Today, Information (2010-12-09)."Macmillan Announces Release of Digital Science".newsbreaks.infotoday.Retrieved2022-02-04.
- ^abFenner, Martin."Figshare: Interview with Mark Hahnel".PLoS Blogs.Archived fromthe originalon 25 July 2013.Retrieved19 June2013.
- ^Kishor, Puneet (31 January 2013)."PLOS and figshare make open science publishing more open".Creative Commons.Retrieved19 June2013.
- ^"ImpactStory adds figshare integration".Research Information.3 December 2013.Retrieved1 January2014.
- ^Hooijmans, CR; Ritskes-Hoitinga, M (2013-07-16)."Progress in Using Systematic Reviews of Animal Studies to Improve Translational Research".PLOS Med.10(7): e1001482.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001482.PMC3712909.PMID23874162.
- ^abHahnel, Mark."Figshare: a new way to publish scientific research data".Wellcome Trust Blog.Archived fromthe originalon 14 April 2014.Retrieved19 June2013.
- ^"FAQ".figshare.Archived fromthe originalon 16 April 2015.Retrieved21 June2013.
- ^"FAQ".figshare.Archived fromthe originalon 16 April 2015.Retrieved19 June2013.
- ^Singh, Jatinder (Apr–Jun 2011)."FigShare".Journal of Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics.2(2): 138–139.doi:10.4103/0976-500X.81919.PMC3127351.PMID21772785.
- ^"CLOCKSS".clockss.org.
- ^"Elements".Symplectic.Archived fromthe originalon 2019-05-09.Retrieved2019-05-09.
- ^Hyndman, Alan (6 December 2017)."Figshare and Symplectic Offer New Integration to Improve Institutional Workflows".Figshare.
- ^Hyndman, Alan (17 July 2016)."figshare launches revamped GitHub integration".Figshare.
- ^"Over 2.5 million research outputs deposited on Figshare will now display Altmetric Badges, ushering in a new era of data level metrics".Altmetric.28 April 2016.
External links
[edit]Media related toFigshareat Wikimedia Commons