Making research more accessible with Figshare

We want to enable all of our authors and editors to publish the best research and promote wider access to research data, and other materials that support publications. To help achieve this we have introduced enhanced display and discovery of supplementary materials (additional files) in BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals, in partnership with Figshare. We are now depositing additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals in Figshare. 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) 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) Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner, and also works with publishers to enhance scholarly publications. Articles published in SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journals can now show a widget for previewing and browsing additional files, enabling readers to see this enhanced content in line with the article in the same browser window. See the image for an article from BMC Genomics and screen...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Open Access Publishing FigShare Source Type: blogs