SHARE Update, January 2016 | SHARE

"Heading into the new year, it is a good time to pause and reflect on the past year, and look forward to what lies ahead. In 2015, SHARE launched the public beta of SHARE Notify, which generates a feed of research release events—such as posting a preprint to a disciplinary repository, depositing a data set into a data repository, publishing a peer-reviewed article—from diverse sources. By the end of the year, the SHARE Notify database included more than three million research releases contributed by 77 data providers. This is a tremendous step forward as the SHARE team continues to add research releases and new registered sources. This progress is also the result of contributions from so many people both within the SHARE team and community working groups in the first two years of this initiative. Now with renewed SHARE funding from IMLS and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced in October, we are excited to head into 2016 focused on the next step towards realizing our vision for SHARE to maximize research impact by making it more accessible, discoverable, and reusable. The theme for the new year is enhancing the critical mass of metadata created through Phase I of SHARE by adding or imputing missing elements and linking related objects, and therefore improving the accessibility and reusability of research content ..."