Sharing Research Data—New figshare For Institutions | Against-the-Grain.com

"The figshare platform enables researchers to make their figures, datasets, images, and videos publicly available, providing the researcher with a “citable, searchable, and discoverable endpoint”—all for free. The company says this is important not only for the supplementary data accompanying one’s experiment, but even negative results. figshare allows users to upload any file format so that figures, datasets, and media can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow. figshare offers unlimited storage space for data that is made publicly available on the site, and 1GB of free storage space for users looking for a secure, private area to store their research. All data is persistently stored online under the most liberal Creative Commons license, waiving copyright where possible. (All figures, media, poster, papers and multiple file uploads (filesets) are published under a CC-BY license. All datasets are published under CC0.) This allows scientists to access and share the information from anywhere in the world with minimal friction. All research made publicly available at figshare gets allocated a DataCite DOI at point of publication. Anyone can browse the public figshare data, using a simple interface. You can sort by category, file type (figure, media, dataset, poster, paper, presentations, fileset), and by most recent, most shared, or most viewed ... figshare is hosted in the cloud using Amazon Web Services to ensure the highest level of security and stability for research data ... In addition, figshare and the CLOCKSS archive have partnered to preserve figshare’s publically available content in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world.   In early 2013, figshare announced a partnership with Public Library of Science (PLOS), an open access publisher. figshare hosts the supplemental data for all seven PLOS journals ... In early September 2013, Hahnelannounced that figshare was now ready to expand beyond serving individual researchers and publishers and help institutions as well. figshare for Institutions is a simple, user-friendly and cost-effective solution for academic and higher education establishments to both securely host and make publicly available its academic research outputs. figshare allows academic institutions to publish, share and get credit for their research data, hosting videos, datasets, posters, figures and theses in a cost-effective way ..."