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figshare webinar : meeting funder open data mandates

With an increasing number of funders across the world mandating open data, the pressure is on researchers and their institutions to meet these requirements. 

Do you and your institution have a plan?

If no, don't worry, join this webinar to find out more about how figshare can help. 

figshare for institutions is now being used by over 20 universities across the world. The platform has been praised by librarians and research data managers for being a user-friendly out-of-the-box data solution.

In this webinar we'll be showing you how to get started with figshare for institutions, the problems our platform solves, as well as how we address some of the more complex issues in research data management eg. commercially or ethically sensitive data, embargo periods and discipline-specific metadata.

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Surveys seek input on needs and resources for biodiversity data in the Pacific Islands

To help prepare for the 2016 calls for proposals under the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme, GBIF has released surveys seeking input from data holders and decision makers in the Pacific Islands—two stakeholder groups critical to the programme’s long-term success. Seeh http://www.gbif.org/newsroom/news/BID-pacific-survey for more information.

SPNHC 2016 One Collection: pathways to integration

Berlin, the Museum for Naturkunde, and Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum proved to be an engaging setting for SPNHC 2016. Conference attendees packed the conference rooms and exhibit hall of the andel’s Hotel in Friedrichshain.

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