Online digital repository Figshare has announced that The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) are the latest institutions to sign up for the Figshare for Institutions offering. Figshare for Institutions helps academic institutions manage, disseminate and measure the public impact of all their research outputs, while easing the route to compliance with open data mandates.
Following the meeting of the Competitiveness Council (a gathering of EU ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry) in Brussels on May 27th, all scientific publicly funded articles in Europe must be freely accessible and the data must be reusable, unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so as of 2020. Under the presidency of Sander Dekker, the Netherlands State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, EU ministers all decided unanimously to support this mandate. In line with this move, UvA and HvA will go one step further and utilise Figshare for Institutions to provide an intuitive interface to enable the deposit and management of active research data, along with efficient mechanisms for open sharing, collaboration and discoverability.
The pioneering platform is already established at institutions across the UK, Australasia, and the USA, also supporting needs for better storage, preservation, accessibility and publication of the outputs produced by their researchers.
The key aspects of the Figshare for Institutions platform include portals that showcase research of an institution or department; ability to group content into collections and collaborative project spaces; data curation and administrative workflows; institutional storage and file uploads up to 5tb; and enhanced content discoverability through a advanced search, categorisation and metadata;
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