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To cite any content on Figshare you need to copy and paste or drag and drop the text that is under the displayed file, in the Cite section. You can also export the citation to RefWorks, BibTeX, Endnote, DataCite, NLM, DC and RefMan. These are available in the side pane (to the right) of every page. If you are not ready to make your data public ...
- Figshare+ Overview
- Sharing Data on Figshare+
- Support
The Figshare+ repository is a flexible research repository where you can make any type of data or other output of your research publicly available and associate it with related publications and research projects. It was created specifically to support larger datasets (over 100GB, up to many TBs) and larger files sizes together with more metadata, l...
Figshare+ User Account
If this is your first time using Figshare+, the Figshare review team will email you with directions to login to your new Figshare+ user account and reset the password using the Forget Passwordfunction. Be sure to complete your public researcher profile and sync your ORCiD (learn about ORCiD, a persistent unique identifier for researchers). An ORCiD is required for the submitting author to publish on Figshare+. Note that you can add your ORCiD to your Figshare+ account even if you have already...
Use the Project for the dataset to create items
For Figshare+, you will upload datasets by using a Group Projectthat the Figshare review team creates for the specific dataset and invites you to be a collaborator on. By using Projects, we can grant the storage amount for the specific Data Publishing Charge to the project and our review team will be able to provide assistance while you upload your data. Once you login to your Figshare+ account, go to the Projects tab and you should see the project that your account has been invited to be a c...
Group files into Items and Collections
With your Figshare+ Data Publishing Charge, you can publish up to 10 unique items (datasets or other item types like software or media files) and group these into a public collection Group research products as you would want them to be cited and as they support specific publications. If you have a research project with multiple data files or outputs, you can choose to create multiple dataset itemswith just 1 or 2 files each or you can create a single item with up to 5,000 files. An item in th...
The Figshare Review team is available to provide guidance at any stage of Figshare+ data sharing. To discuss data sharing best practices or plans for publishing your research in Figshare+ in advance of submitting your data or for review and guidance on a draft dataset you have uploaded, you are welcome to reach out to the Figshare Review team by em...
For example, to add the DOI for a paper that uses the dataset, add the title of the paper in the title field, add the paper's DOI, select DOI from the identifier type list, and choose IsSupplementTo as the relation type. If you want to link to a related dataset or a Figshare Collection, use the IsPartOf relation type.
What is a DOI? DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier and is a type of persistent identifier (PID), for more information about PIDs read our blog post. As the name suggests these are persistent and so provide a permanent link to your research. Figshare are a DataCite node and so items published on Figshare are issued with DataCite DOIs.
As governments and funders of research see the benefit of open content, the creation of recommendations, mandates and enforcement of mandates are coming thick and fast. Figshare has always led the way in enabling academics, publishers and institutions to easily adhere to these principles in the most intuitive and efficient manner.
You can do this at any time, with existing articles or new uploads. Starting in My data, click to edit the article and enter the metadata screen: At the bottom and to the left of the screen you’ll see a new option, “Get DOI or Private Link”. Click here will take you to the private article preview page, where underneath your preview viewer ...
