Digital Science is today calling for greater awareness of the impact that a myriad of fast-developing technologies are having on academics and their institutions.
Tag: Open Data
Queen’s University Belfast to launch Figshare-powered repository to share, showcase and manage its research data and theses
Queen’s University Belfast has chosen Figshare as its new repository platform to store, showcase and manage its research data and theses outputs.
The University of Limpopo chooses Figshare to support its research excellence strategy
The University of Limpopo has chosen Figshare to facilitate the collection, management, sharing and preservation of its research data.
Appalachian State University chooses Figshare as its new institutional repository platform
Appalachian State University has chosen Figshare as its new institutional repository platform to share, showcase and manage its research outputs.
African research to benefit from new open data management course
Open data practices in African research institutions will be bolstered thanks to a new online course for librarians.
University of the Witwatersrand chooses Figshare to support its open data goals
The University of the Witwatersrand Library has chosen Figshare to support its research community with archiving, publishing, sharing and promoting their datasets.
Open principles reaffirm Digital Science’s commitment to open research
Digital Science has launched its Open Principles, a new initiative that commits its research information solutions to open science now and into the future.
University of Sussex connects Figshare to Symplectic Elements to create a joined-up research data management solution
The University of Sussex has successfully integrated Figshare and Symplectic Elements from Digital Science’s flagship products to create a seamless, interoperable research information and data management solution.
Nature authors can now seamlessly share their data
In a further move to support open research, more journals in the Nature Portfolio – including Nature itself – will now provide authors with the opportunity to openly share their data, thanks to an integration with Figshare.
The State of Open Data Report 2022: Researchers need more support to assist with open data mandates
Researchers worldwide will need further assistance to help comply with an increasing number of open data mandates, according to the authors of a new report.
FASEB Joins Alliance in Support of Open Scholarship
FASEB joins alliance of organizations to identify, articulate, and advance open science, open data, and open scholarship norms and practices within their disciplines.
Improved data sharing policies will boost public trust in research
Public trust in science can be boosted if major funding bodies adopt improved, standardized policies for data sharing and open access research, say the authors of a new report.
Citizen science: empowering citizens to address global challenges
IIASA researchers actively contribute to the development of citizen science and have recently published a primer aimed at both established and aspiring practitioners of this approach to highlight key issues and how to address them.
Advocating for a global commitment to science diplomacy
The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy has been endorsed by more than one hundred eminent personalities from the academic and policymaking community.