Figshare for sharing academic papers with their datasets

Figshare seems to be gaining important in scholarly communication - here is a blogpost from a social scientist on how she uses it.


figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.

figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.

Interesting new feature: Elsevier and Dryad Implement Reciprocal Linking Between Datasets and Published Research Articles

Link to this press release

"Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Dryad Digital Repository, a leading archive for scientific and medical research data, today announced that they have implemented two-way linking between their respective content. The Dryad Digital Repository provides facilities for archiving, discovery and accessibility of data files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine, as well as software scripts and other files important to the article. Dryad is a nonprofit organization committed to its mission of making data publicly available for research and educational reuse. All datasets stored by Dryad receive persistent, resolvable Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to allow their proper citation. ....."