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Open research for academic institutions

Aileen Irons — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:16:16 +0000

Open research

Empower and enhance transparency across the research ecosystem. Cultivate a knowledge sharing environment and provide robust support to researchers in light of funder mandates

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Supporting Open Research

At Digital Science, we believe that many of the different aspects of research need to be shared as openly as possible. Openness in research promotes transparency throughout the research lifecycle and has the capacity to improve both research itself and its long-term societal impact.

Digital Science Open Principles

At Digital Science, our vision is of a trusted collaborative research ecosystem that drives progress for all. In support of this, and our commitment to align more closely with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, we are proud to introduce Digital Science’s Open Principles – an initiative which commits our research information solutions to open science now and into the future.

Community ownership: we believe that research outcomes are owned by the global community and should be available to all
Participating in open infrastructure: we commit to support the use of open standards and to build, contribute to, and extend open infrastructures
Stakeholders’ primacy: we believe that stakeholder benefits should be at the forefront
Establishing trust: we believe that a trusted stakeholder in the research ecosystem must be responsible, transparent and sustainable.

See our Open Principles to find out more about Digital Science’s commitment to opening up research for everyone.

It’s my hope that our new Open Principles will help reflect to the research community just how important we feel open research is in creating benefits for society. These are not just internal principles, they represent our broader commitment to the entire research ecosystem

Mark Hahnel I VP Open Research | Digital Science

How can I best support faculty in navigating the open research landscape?

In The State of Open Data 2023 report, nearly three-quarters of researchers said they had never received support for making their data openly available.

Maturing your research management infrastructure and support offerings is crucial to effectively support your research community with growing funder and publisher requirements for open research.
Figshare repository infrastructure and Symplectic Elements work together to provide a holistic research management solution; reducing administrative burden, creating efficiencies for your team and offering best-in-class research management systems for your researchers and faculty.

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How can I streamline our open research workflows and facilitate collaboration?

Support a more open and comprehensive research management solution. Implement a research management process to share, showcase and manage all institutional research outputs in one place.

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Reduce the administrative burden of research information management, by ingesting data from a wide range of sources to build a truly comprehensive picture of institutional data.

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How can I increase transparency and help raise the level of reproducibility?

Provide trusted repository infrastructure that enables research to be as open and discoverable as possible. Complete with altmetrics and citation data, researchers can get credit for all of their research outputs.

Make your researchers and their expertise as discoverable as possible by repurposing research information data to populate fully-rounded profiles including biographical information as well as publications, grants and professional & teaching activities. To help your research go even further, you can also provide profile visitors with direct links to open access copies of your publications.

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Discover how The Francis Crick Institute is using the technology of Symplectic and Figshare to empower its researchers to have richer research profiles and to make it easier for them to publish their papers and data Open Access.

How can I support researchers to comply with Open Research mandates?

As policy requirements for open research from publishers and funders grow, support your researchers with the complexities of compliance.

Implement reliable repository infrastructure that meets the growing demands for all aspects of research to become open, FAIRer, faster, freer and more connected.

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How can I help build trust in research?

For those involved in research communications, the integrity and trustworthiness of research are as important as the attention and citations it receives. Dimensions’ Trust Markers can help you to assess the transparency and reproducibility of published research. Not only that, but Dimensions interconnected research data provides you peace of mind and results you can trust thanks to a 360 view of the research ecosystem.

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How can I analyze the impact of Open Access?

Open Access is an integral part of the journey to a more collaborative research environment.

Dimensions’ rich data and analytical capabilities provides multiple filters to easily display results which are Open Access. With over 48 million Open Access (OA) records, including publications, preprints, open monographs, chapters, and books. You can understand the impact of Open Access quickly and easily.

You can use this data to assess your university’s status with OA publishing and evaluate new strategic initiatives.

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If we’re going to have a conversation with a publisher, I can jump quickly into Dimensions and see exactly what Iowa State is doing with that publisher, what journals our faculty are publishing in and so on, because they would be the key stakeholders for that particular agreement.

Curtis Brundy | Iowa State University

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Partnering with the community

For more than a decade we have been partnering with the research community in support of open research and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community.

2012

Figshare launch

2015

DataCite board

2017

Figshare partnership with ORCiD

2019

Digital Science becomes one of four founding partners of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI)

2022

Figshare participation in Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)

2024

Mark Hahnel announced as Digital Science’s VP Open Research

2024

Digital Science adopts Open Principles

I want to celebrate cost-effective and equitable open access and learn how to ensure trustworthy dissemination of academic research in a post-AI world. I look forward to collaborating with everyone driving academia and humanity forward further, and faster through open research.

Mark Hahnel | VP Open Research and Founder of Figshare | Digital Science

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Open research at Digital Science

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The State of Open Data 2023

The longest running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data

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This three-part series discusses when different sectors and players may benefit from Open FAIR data

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Digital Science commits to Open Principles

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Automating NIH grant compliance

Discover how Duke University are automating NIH grant compliance with Symplectic Elements at Duke University.

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Driving an open data culture change

Explore the successful implementation of a Figshare-powered data repository for the University of Malta (UM).

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The State of Open Data 2022

Aileen Irons — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:32:28 +0000

The State of Open Data 2022

The longest-running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data

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Growing trend in researchers being in favour of data being made openly available

The State of Open Data is a global survey providing insights into researchers’ attitudes towards and experiences of open data.

In our seventh survey, we asked about motivations and perceived discoverability and credibility of data that is shared openly. With more than 5,400 respondents, the 2022 survey is the largest since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

This year’s report also includes guest articles from open data experts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), publishers and universities.

Key findings from this year’s survey

There is a growing trend in researchers being in favour of data being made openly available as common practice (4 out of every five researchers were in agreement with this), supported somewhat by now over 70% of respondents being required to follow a policy on data sharing.
However, researchers still cite a key need in helping them to share their data as being more training or information on policies for access, sharing and reuse (55%) as well as long-term storage and data management strategies (52%).
Credit and recognition were once again a key theme for researchers in sharing their data. Of those who had previously shared data, 66% had received some form of recognition for their efforts – most commonly via full citation in another article (41%) followed by co-authorship on a paper that had used the data.
Researchers are more inclined to share their research data where it can have an impact on citations (67%) and the visibility of their research (61%), rather than being motivated by public benefit or journal/publisher mandate (both 56%).

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Find out the latest on researchers’ attitudes toward and practices of open data in the seventh installment of the State of Open Data survey and report. The longest running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data practices, this year’s report pulls together a host of contributive pieces addressing the challenges and opportunities found in the survey results.

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data.

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The State of Open Data 2021

Aileen Irons — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:05:09 +0000

The State of Open Data 2021

The longest-running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data

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Concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing

Since 2016, we have monitored levels of data sharing and usage. Over the years, we have had 21,000 responses from researchers worldwide providing unparalleled insight into their motivations, challenges, perceptions, and behaviours toward open data.

In our sixth survey, we asked about motivations as well as perceived discoverability and credibility of data that is shared openly. The State of Open Data is a critical piece of information that enables us to identify the barriers to open data from a researcher perspective, laying the foundation for future action.

Researchers are left to navigate a system that makes it harder than not to share and where, most alarmingly, the public may only fully understand the importance of data sharing when it’s shown to have gone dramatically wrong. There’s no time to lose.
Ginny Barbour | Open Access Australasia

Key findings from this year’s survey

73% support the idea of a national mandate for making research data openly available
52% said funders should make the sharing of research data part of their requirements for awarding grants
47% said they would be motivated to share their data if there was a journal or publisher requirement to do so
About a third of respondents indicated that they have reused their own or someone else’s openly accessible data more during the pandemic than before
There are growing concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing

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The answers lie in the harmony needed between policies, infrastructure and practices.

Natasha Simons | Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

What you’ll find inside:

Foreword by Natasha Simons, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Three key findings from this year’s State of Open Data survey
The role of data curation in enhancing data and metadata quality
A day in the life of a data curator: the steps, challenges, and rewards of the data review process
Open Source and Open Data: Collaboration is Key
Consolidating research data management infrastructure: a vital piece of theFAIR jigsaw & (meta)data quality improvements

How publishers can uphold research quality through embedded data support
Open data and the life sciences: the turning point
J-STAGE Data: evidence data platform for Japan’s learned society publishing
Tips for engaging your researchers in open data sharing practices- practical guidance from – the University of Pretoria
Tips for how to engage your researchers in open data sharing practices
How open data can help validate research and combat scientific misinformation

Watch the on-demand webinar for the 2022 State of Open Data Report

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Find out the latest on researchers’ attitudes toward and practices of open data in the seventh installment of the State of Open Data survey and report.

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Open Data and Government

Aileen Irons — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:04:15 +0000

We help federal agencies comply with open data policies

Used by many, our solutions are up and running in days, not years. Digital Science has a history of successfully working with government agencies to quickly configure our platforms and systems to comply with federal mandates for public access to research and data. We bring years of experience with technical infrastructure, data sharing best practices, and analytics to measure research impact to help guide the launch and operation of data repositories.

With our team’s expertise and our infrastructure’s easy set-up and smooth user experience, your group can rapidly adjust to comply with new open-access policies and be a contributor to the growing open data community. Ask about contracting with us and we’ll tell you how we can help.

Data sharing and open data with Figshare

We support Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Data Officers (CDO) in compliance with the OPEN Government Data Act on public access to research results, including publishing openly accessible datasets. Our solutions go beyond making data open to making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

Our solutions go beyond making data open, to making data FAIR with enhanced discoverability and reusability, including the ability to customize metadata and curation workflows for your needs. Our administrative portal provides the necessary capabilities for all considerations of research data management curation, workflow, and reporting.

Figshare administrative portals provide:

Accessibility and standards compliant infrastructure
Highly configurable metadata and curation workflows
Custom branding and Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication
Automatically assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
Impact tracking and usage statistics dashboard

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Enhance your repository and demonstrate open access achievements

One study found that articles that include statements with a link to data in a open access repository like Figshare have up to 25% higher citation impact on average. Digital Science products track and deliver bibliometric insights about the impact of your research, including:

Citations, Relative Citation Ratio, Field Citation Ratio
Alternative metrics like news and social media mentions
Downloads and views

We can help you add Altmetric and Dimensions badges to your existing repository with a simple line of code. Our badges are seen across dozens of major publications and websites, including Nature, USDA’s PubAg, and CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Michigan Publishing Case Study on Altmetric Badges:

Michigan’s team members are keen to consistently demonstrate their support for furthering the disciplines in which they publish.

Using Dimensions to understand Open Access adoption rates

Philipp Pollack, Data & Metrics Specialist in the Central Library at Forschungszentrum Jülich, highlights the role Dimensions & GRID data play in monitoring Germany’s Open

Emerging data trends

Our work on open access to global scientific data, combined with our efforts to track research activity, enables us to provide unique insights into emerging trends in research that can be used to inform strategy for a wide range of federal agencies. We support these efforts in the public health, defence, and intelligence communities.

We also conduct and produce the annual State of Open Data report, the largest survey of federally-funded researchers on the motivations, concerns, trends, and barriers to publishing and sharing data.

Global Attitudes Towards Open Data

As mandates and policies around open data are enforced, the use of and sharing of data is becoming more central to scholarly communication.

Enhancing metadata for reuse and discoverability

Janelia Research Campus works with Figshare’s Curation Service to enhance metadata for reuse and discoverability

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New Avenues For Engagement And Sharing

Katy Alexander — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:54:31 +0000

New avenues for engagement and sharing created by integrating Figshare into journal platforms

ACS creates new avenues for engagement and sharing by integrating Figshare into its journal platform

The American Chemical Society has integrated the Figshare
DataStore and Viewer into its full-text journal platform. This
venerable society publisher is also using the Figshare infrastructure
as a custom portal for its research outputs.

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Global Attitudes Towards Open Data

Aileen Irons — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:15:57 +0000

The future of Open Data

As mandates and policies encouraging open data are becoming more widely established and enforced, the use of and sharing of data is becoming more central to research and increasingly the community is recognising that open data provides greater transparency, reproducibility, efficiency, and impact for funded research as well as supporting collaboration and data science initiatives through data reusability. In response, Institutions, Publishers and Government agencies are establishing and extending their data infrastructure and expertise, enacting data management and sharing plan requirements, and creating public access policies for both internal data and research programs as well as funded research.

Figshare offers a highly configurable repository solution to provide access to datasets, publications, and all of the products of research with a dedicated repository portal. Figshare’s out of the box software is designed to meet requirements for security, accessibility, and global repository standards such as preservation, persistence, metadata, and discoverability.

How researchers are using open data

The State of Open Data is the longest-running longitudinal study that examines attitudes and experiences of researchers working with open data – sharing it, reusing it, and redistributing it. The reports provide an interesting lens through which to view how far open research has come, and to look at opportunities for improvement in data sharing. Every year Digital Science, in association with Figshare and Springer Nature, conducts the largest survey of its kind to discover global attitudes towards open data.

4/5 respondents are in favour of research data being made openly available as common practice

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State of Open Data 2022

State of Open Data 2021

State of Open Data 2020

State of Open Data 2019

State of Open Data 2018

State of Open Data 2017

State of Open Data 2016

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The State of Open Data 2020

ds2020-test-editor — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:06:27 +0000

New avenues for engagement and sharing created by integrating Figshare into journal platforms

ISBN: 978-1-9993177-5-1
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.13227875

The Report is the fifth in the series and includes survey results from 4,500 participants and a collection of articles from global industry experts. It is now the longest-running longitudinal study on the subject, which was created in 2016 to examine the attitudes and experiences of researchers working with open data – sharing it, reusing it, and redistributing it. We feel inspired and encouraged that most open data trends are heading in the right direction.

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Advancing Openness and Responsibility

Aileen Irons — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:31:54 +0000

Advancing Research Openness and Responsibility

At Digital Science, we believe that many of the different aspects of research need to be shared as openly as possible. Openness in research has the capacity to improve both research itself and its long-term societal impact. Of course, the research ecosystem is not simple – data privacy and many other factors need to be considered but, broadly, getting the most useful findings into the right hands with the lowest possible barriers to reuse and further development is in everyone’s interest. These principles lie at the heart of openness – they are what can make research beneficial to humanity as a whole. Open research is not just about Open Access. It aims to promote transparency throughout the research lifecycle: from funding, through research methodology and data sharing, to evaluation and impact. It is also a key tenet of a healthy research culture that is open to, and supportive of, all people and ideas; a global community where knowledge is shared freely.

In recent years, a reproducibility crisis has arisen in the research community. The key to ensuring all research is reproducible is to document and report details of methods, equipment, analytical software, and data as accurately and openly as possible. While it is up to researchers to ensure that happens, we know that the burden of implementing a workflow that allows research to be tracked and documented in a transparent way can be costly and complex. Our focus is to support the community on their path to openness by developing and implementing elegant and interoperable technological solutions.

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Open research for academic institutions

Open research for academic institutions is supported by Digital Science throughout the research lifecycle

The State of Open Data 2022

The longest-running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data.

The State of Open Data 2021

The longest-running longitudinal survey and analysis on open data.

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A pathway to Open Research with richer research profiles

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How researchers are using open data

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Understanding open access adoption rates

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Reproducibility or Producibility? Metrics and their masters

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A Pathway to Open Research with Richer Research Profiles – Case Study

Aileen Irons — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:32:38 +0000

New avenues for engagement and sharing created by integrating Figshare into journal platforms

Discover how The Francis Crick Institute is using the technology of Symplectic and Figshare to empower its researchers to have richer research profiles and to make it easier for them to publish their papers and data Open Access. To learn how Digital Science can accelerate innovation for your organization visit our institutional page

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The State of Open Data 2019

Katy Alexander — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:38:03 +0000

The State of Open Data 2019

The report is the fourth in the series and includes survey results and a collection of articles from global industry experts. This year’s survey received a record number of survey participants with around 8,500 responses from the research community.

While most trends are encouraging around the adoption and acceptance of open data, the research community is now demanding more enforcement of the mandates that have been adopted by many governments, funders, publishers and institutions around the world. The majority of researchers want funding withheld and penalties for a lack of data sharing.

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The Recent Trends in Open Research Archives - Digital Science

Open research for academic institutions

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Digital Science Open Principles

Mark Hahnel I VP Open Research | Digital Science

How can I best support faculty in navigating the open research landscape?

How can I streamline our open research workflows and facilitate collaboration?

How can I increase transparency and help raise the level of reproducibility?

How can I support researchers to comply with Open Research mandates?

How can I help build trust in research?

How can I analyze the impact of Open Access?

Curtis Brundy | Iowa State University

Partnering with the community

Mark Hahnel | VP Open Research and Founder of Figshare | Digital Science

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The State of Open Data 2022

Growing trend in researchers being in favour of data being made openly available

Key findings from this year’s survey

Watch the on-demand webinar

Related articles

The State of Open Data 2021

Concerns over misuse and lack of credit for open sharing

What you’ll find inside:

Watch the on-demand webinar for the 2022 State of Open Data Report

Related articles

Open Data and Government

We help federal agencies comply with open data policies

Data sharing and open data with Figshare

Enhance your repository and demonstrate open access achievements

Michigan Publishing Case Study on Altmetric Badges:

Using Dimensions to understand Open Access adoption rates

Emerging data trends

Global Attitudes Towards Open Data

Enhancing metadata for reuse and discoverability

Expand your collaboration network

Get in touch

New Avenues For Engagement And Sharing

Global Attitudes Towards Open Data

How researchers are using open data

The State of Open Data 2020

Advancing Openness and Responsibility

Advancing Research Openness and Responsibility

Figshare

Dimensions

Reproducibility Shouldn’t Be a Crisis

Digital Science appoints its first VP of Research Integrity

Provocative Paper Titles

Curious Case within Preprints: Is the Author Real?

Advancing Open Research

Open research for academic institutions

The State of Open Data 2022

The State of Open Data 2021

Resources

A Pathway to Open Research with Richer Research Profiles – Case Study

The State of Open Data 2019