2 August 2019
Springer Nature and City, University of London have formed a new partnership to support researchers with research data management. Support from a research data editor at Springer Nature is available to all City researchers and doctoral students who submit files on https://city.figshare.com. The service is free at the point of use for City researchers. All submissions remain part of City’s research infrastructure and confidential until such time as they are published on City’s figshare repository.
As an established user of figshare for institutions, City, University of London provide their researchers with infrastructure to store, share and publish their research outputs. But as their support for UK funding agency policies to support research data management has become more established at the institution, they have identified a need to progressively increase their capacity to provide consistent, professional data curation support to researchers.
Rather than researchers submitting their datasets to the Springer Nature figshare repository for curation and publication, in this instance Springer Nature’s research data editors act as curators at the institution’s existing data repository. Researchers are provided with one-to-one support, detailed metadata records for their data and are assured that their data and metadata are published, or stored privately, according to best practices and relevant standards for their data type. Research support staff at the institution are also supported by a service which complements the existing practices and policies of the institution, and offers a reliable data curation service that can scale with increasing demand across disciplines.