Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a new partnership with Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research. This partnership will help them improve the discoverability of supplemental material they publish for the authors, as well as support the display of this material online.
Launched in 2011, Figshare is dedicated to improving the reach, discoverability, and reusability of scholarly research. It accepts a variety of types of material, such as datasets, figures, posters, and more. Enhancing discoverability, Figshare assigns a citable digital object identifier (DOI) to each file, enabling researchers to receive full credit for their work.
SAGE and Figshare are working together to integrate the new services across existing journal workflows, supporting SAGE journal authors by submitting supplemental material to Figshare concurrent with article publication online. The services will help SAGE journal authors to preserve and manage their material and collaborate on research projects, whilst ensuring their supplemental material is widely accessible.
Figshare's platform includes interactive visualisation tools that help to bring research data to life. It also enables researchers to measure the impact of their supplemental material by providing metrics on how many views, shares, citations, and downloads they receive.
Figshare has been integrated across participating SAGE journals beginning in March 2018.
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