figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner

The background figure: Olympics and Culture: Tracings, Projections and Intersections: Koi (2018)

by Andrew Selby in Studies in Creative Arts and Writing

figshare allows users to upload any file format

To be previewed in the browser so that any research output, from posters and presentations to datasets and code, can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow

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figshare proved to be a good idea. Since 2012 we have offered...

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who uses figshare

Institutions

Manage, disseminate and measure the public impact of all your research outputs

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Publishers

Increase the discoverability of your content while better serving your end users and authors

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Researchers

Make your research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner

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what others are saying

A really important update to the scientific publishing process: figshare.com allows researchers to share data, negative results #bigwin

Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

our path so far

2011

Conception! (We’ve come a long way)

2012

JANUARY

Figshare is launched, after receiving the Digital Science Catalyst Grant.

JUNE

F1000 becomes our first publisher client. We have since gone to provide research data infrastructure for Wiley, SpringerNature, Taylor and Francis, PLOS, to name a few.

AUGUST

Open API launched. Our application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, helping to automate researcher workflows!

OCTOBER

Figshare signs on as an ORCID launch partner. Thus allowing researchers to automatically push all of their research outputs into their open researcher profile.

2013

JANUARY

Figshare launches the Advisor program. Who better to help spread the word than the researchers who love what we do. Find out about all of the benefits!

2014

MARCH

Figshare partners with Github and the Mozilla Science Lab. In doing so, we helped pioneer some of the standards and workflows for credit for Code as a Research Output.

AUGUST

The development of Figshare for institutions takes us to the next level of optimising workflows, taking into account the needs of librarians and administrators, as well as the researchers.

SEPTEMBER

We were delighted to be recognised as a New radicals Winner - highlighting organisations offering innovative ways to tackle social challenges.

2015

MARCH

The partnership between Figshare and DataCite is formalized to support branded DOI minting at an institutional level. Thus further cementing our work with the research data management community

AUGUST

Our institutional offering goes live, launching globally with 10 institutions accross 3 continents. You can find out more about this functionality here!

and we will keep going

the team behind figshare

Our mission is to change the face of academic publishing with the improved dissemination and discoverability and reusability of all scholarly research. We're a passionate bunch.

The Figshare team now spans 3 continents and specializes in building best of breed software to securely and permanently store, manage and visualize data in a robust and scalable manner.

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