Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2021-11-17
Description
With expanding funder data sharing policies, especially the new NIH data management and sharing policy slated for 2023, we expect that researchers from medical research institutions will increasingly need trusted repositories to share data and all of the other products of their research. However, the complexity of sharing medical research data, even when anonymized, means data are often not shared despite funder policies. In the past year, Figshare, a trusted repository platform that meets funder requirements across the globe, released a suite of new features to fit data sharing needs, increase impact, and encourage sharing. Useful to both researchers and librarians, these features include public pages in compliance with international accessibility standards, click-through citation counts, funding metadata that links out to grants, and restricted access publishing options for sensitive data. This presentation will review these features and suggest ways librarians can use the Figshare platform to help medical researchers work openly, comply with funder policies, and get credit for all the results of their research.
Keywords
institutional repositories, health sciences, Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries, MIRL, MIRL 2021, Figshare, Repositories, data-sharing
Open Access
1
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2021 Mckenna-Foster
Repository Citation
Mckenna-Foster, Andrew, "Figshare Repositories: New Data-Sharing Features for Researchers and Librarians" (2021). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 11.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2021/program/11
Figshare Repositories: New Data-Sharing Features for Researchers and Librarians
With expanding funder data sharing policies, especially the new NIH data management and sharing policy slated for 2023, we expect that researchers from medical research institutions will increasingly need trusted repositories to share data and all of the other products of their research. However, the complexity of sharing medical research data, even when anonymized, means data are often not shared despite funder policies. In the past year, Figshare, a trusted repository platform that meets funder requirements across the globe, released a suite of new features to fit data sharing needs, increase impact, and encourage sharing. Useful to both researchers and librarians, these features include public pages in compliance with international accessibility standards, click-through citation counts, funding metadata that links out to grants, and restricted access publishing options for sensitive data. This presentation will review these features and suggest ways librarians can use the Figshare platform to help medical researchers work openly, comply with funder policies, and get credit for all the results of their research.