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Overview

  • Repo for figures, datasets, media (including video), papers (including pre-prints), posters, filesets (groups of files) and theses.
  • Free to upload and access (open data)
  • Allows publication of negative data (lessening effect of 'file drawer effect' bias)
  • All items given DOI (from DataCite?)
  • Licensing: CC (CC-BY for most files and CC0 (public domain) for datasets.)
  • Hosting: Amazon S3 and public data on [[CLOCKSS]]
  • Integrates w/ [[ORCID]]
  • Open API: http://api.figshare.com/docs/
  • Archive GitHub code repository to figshare using browser plugin and receive a citable DOI (collaboration with GitHub and Mozilla Science Lab). Cite exact files used in generating research outputs.
  • Badges: embed impact of research on own site using various metrics.
  • Social networking aspects: follow certain researchers, categories, tags and saved searches on figshare (a la ResearchGate?)
  • Desktop uploaded (drag and drop)
  • Hosted media e.g. images, videos can be viewed online
  • Private research (default free account)
    • 1GB private storage
    • 250MB max file size
    • 1 collaborative space
    • 5 collaborators
  • Private research (paid-for accounts):
    • 20GB private storage
    • 1GB max file size
    • 3 collaborative space
    • 20 collaborators
  • Version control of all publicly available data.
  • Founder: Mark Hahnel
  • Partnered with PLOS for providing hosting, access and visualisation for data associated with PLOS articles.
  • Uses altmetrics (impact metrics other than journal impact factor and researcher h-index) e.g. HTML/PDF views, discussed (Twitter, Wikipedia etc), saved (Mendelay, Zotero etc), cited (WoS/WoK/Scopus/CrossRef), recommended (e.g. [[F1000Prime]])

figshare For institutions

  • Help institutions learn how much data they are producing, impact etc.
  • push to internal repo for catalogue (ePrints/Symplectic Elements?)
  • Collaborative spaces

Questions

  • How much per-user storage if have figshare for Institutions?
  • Licenses too permissive?
    • CC-BY - can request share-alike or non-commercial?
    • CC0 does not require attribution (but does copyright law apply if dataset contains only facts?)
    • MIT for code - can request (L)GPL?
  • Overlap with other services such as ResearchGate, ePrints/Symplectic Elements
  • How do figshare make money? PloS pay for visualisations and data. figshare for Insitutions. Supported by Digital Science. [[Personal plans|http://figshare.com/pricing]]
  • API use cases w.r.t. integration w/ workflows?
  • Metaanalysis use cases?
  • rsync?

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