It is not just about open or closed, it is about control.

#rfringe13@figshare

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A cloud based research data management system where you can:

What is figshare?

Manage your research outputs privately and

securely

Make your research outputs citable, sharable,

discoverable

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Backed up in multiple institutions around the world

DOIs provided by DataCite at the California Digital Library

Adhere to ethics of academic publishing, as per guidelines

ORCID launch partner, files to be pushed to author profiles

All content hosted on AWS with triple file storage, fast load times and unbeatable uptime

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Some of the formats we visualise

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Research Integrity

Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance

Funders’ Data Policies

As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your research data on figshare can help promote your research and raise your profile

It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate’

Simplicity

Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.

Why do people use figshare?

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Institutions Academics

The future of the repository – Who Cares?Funders

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13 January 2013: "National Science Foundation’s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions”

Biographical Sketch(es), has been revised to rename the “Publications” section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly.

“NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset.” http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm#time

“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution.”

http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf

“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants”

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4

“But taxpayers who are paying for that research will want to see something back. Directly – through open access to results and data. And indirectly – through making science work better for all of us.

That’s why we will require open access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research. That’s why we will progressively open access to the research data, too. And why we’re asking national funding bodies to do the same.”

Neelie Kroes.

Vice President for the Eurpoean Commission

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Research Integrity

Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance

Funders’ Data Policies

As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your research data on figshare can help promote your research and raise your profile

It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate’

Simplicity

Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.

Why do people use figshare?

9GB

3GB

30,000,000GB

3PB

3PB/year

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Research Integrity

Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance

Funders’ Data Policies

As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your research data on figshare can help promote your research and raise your profile

It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate’

Simplicity

Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.

Why do people use figshare?

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“Mark, I really need your data, it is important that your data gets published.

When do you plan to come in? I need you to print out the excel files for all the expts that were used to generate the data in the

figures for the paper”

-Anonymous 2013

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“Mark, I really need your data, it is important that your data gets published.

When do you plan to come in? I need you to print out the excel files for all the expts that were used to generate the data in the

figures for the paper”

-Anonymous 2013

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It is not just about open or closed, it is about control.

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Academics

What’s in it for me?Is it hard to use?Will it take up my time?What do the funders make me do?

I want to share but only with people I trust.I want all of my research in one place.I want my research to have more impact than anyone else’s.

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Institutions

How much data are we generating?Where the hell is it?What’s happened to the old stuff?How can we get our research re-used more than any others?

I want to out-perform other institutions in league tables.

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It is not just about open or closed, it is about control.

Research Outputs Management &

Research Outputs Dissemination

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API

The figshare API allows you to push data to figshare, or pull data out. This first version is a basic implementation that allows you to manage your figshare account or build applications on top of the figshare platform and public research.

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Now is the time when the institutional repository is more important, relevant

and necessary than ever before.

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ResourceSync

Sword App

This Community builds cool and important stuff

Now is the time when the institutional repository is more important, relevant

and necessary than ever before.

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Do we need to go back further?

http://projects.ac @projects

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The Peter Murray-Rust Slide

All data that is made publicly available will always be available with no paywall.

We will always encourage academics to share their research under the most liberal license. At the moment, we ONLY allow CC0 or CC-BY.

We are a commercial company with a business model that allowed researchers to make 200,000 research files openly available in the first year alone, for free.

We will always push to make the data as reusable as it can be, using linked open data, machine readable data, web based analysis tools for the outputs.

We aim to be 5* open data/research.

Since day 1 our ethos has been – Unless we as academics publish all of our research, we will never achieve access to the sum of all knowledge.

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