Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced that the customers of 'Figshare for Institutions' and 'Figshare for Publishers' will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can be hosted anywhere eg. data.publisher.com, data.institution.edu, theworldscoolestdata.com.
This is the next step in their mission to provide the best Repository Infrastructure for papers, data, theses, code and any other academic output. By making policy-compliant infrastructure available in a white-labelled and cost effective manner, institutions can focus on engaging with their academics, and publishers with their authors.
Custom Domains was projected to be one of the biggest features the Figshare team has ever worked on and enable their customers greater control over the branding of their research outputs. It has also allowed them to expand the flexibility and scope of using Figshare as infrastructure at a publisher or institution. Custom Domains extends their functionality that already allows universities and publishers to host data on their own storage, with their own dois, integrated with their single-sign-on, CRIS/RIMS and custom metadata schemas.
One of the biggest changes for Figshare users will be the ability to have multiple accounts across different Figshare instances. eg. a user that has a Figshare.com account for personal use, a University account and a ChemRxiv account will be able to toggle between the three and have the appropriate functionality and permissions.
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