Federation.figshare is a repository for Federation researchers, professional staff and Higher Degree by Research candidates to store, share and publish their digital research files. It enables FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research outputs and encourages consideration of the CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) Principles for Indigenous data governance.
This will facilitate increased use, impact and awareness of Federation University Australia research through access to the University's research data and NTROs across all disciplines; and assist Federation University Australia researchers to meet the open access requirements of the university (under the RDM Procedure) and funding bodies (including the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council).
Benefits of using Federation.figshare include:
Compliance | Easy compliance with funder and publisher requirements to make data open |
Multiple formats | More than 1,000 file types can be uploaded including audio, video, images, spreadsheets, documents, surveys, datasets and posters. |
Accessibility | Files are accessible to you, other researchers, and potential collaborators |
Increased citations | All published research outputs receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) making them easily citable |
Impact | Altmetrics tracks your views, downloads and citations |
Reuse | Apply Creative Commons or other appropriate licenses to define terms of re-use of your files |
Findable | Published research outputs are searchable, facilitating communication with other researchers, government, and industry |
ORCiD linking | Add your ORCiD to your Federation.figshare account so that published research outputs can be linked 10 |
Embargo/private links | Research outputs can be embargoed when necessary or accessed via private links |
Secure management | Manage private or public research outputs securely |
Data from Federation.figshare is harvested weekly into the library's discovery layer, QuickSearch, Trove (National Library Australia), ARDC Research Data Australia, re3data.org and Google datasets to help make your data findable and accessible.
To give feedback, please email libinfo@federation.edu.au
Go to federation.figshare.com or click on the “go to Federation.figshare” button above. Once on the Federation.figshare homepage, click on the red “Log in” button on the top right of the screen, and follow the prompts. You will be able to sign in with your Federation University login.
The homepage of Federation.figshare displays all published items from newest uploaded to oldest irrespective of the type of file. Items can also be searched by clicking on 'Categories' under the Federation logo. This displays all the categories (in Federation.figshare only) in alphabetical order, and by newest to oldest within each category.
Clicking on ‘Browse’ at the top of the Federation.figshare homepage provides a list of the featured categories in figshare.com. You can also search all of figshare.com or only Federation.figshare.
To search all of figshare enter your search terms in the search box at the top of the Federation.figshare home page.
To restrict your search to Federation.figshare only click on the link ‘Search’ under the Federation logo, and then enter your search terms in the search box that appears.
Once your results display you can then filter them in three ways: