Figshare partners with Springer Nature

Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare is now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. This new service to authors and readers will improve the online display of articles; improve readership of and engagement with published articles; increase the discoverability of additional files (and articles); provide richer, more specific metrics about the readership and reuse of additional files; assign each additional file a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI); and provide each journal with its own portal within Springer Nature's Figshare repository, giving each journal its own data repository (example from Genome Biology here). Springer Nature has embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. Articles published in SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journals now show a widget for previewing and browsing additional files, enabling readers to see enhanced content in line with the article in the same browser window. More at: https://www.digital-science.com/press-releases/figshare-partners-with-springer-nature-to-enhance-research-data-discoverability/