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FAIRsharing maintainers receive ORCID attribution

2024 marks the first year that FAIRsharing maintainers may receive attribution on their ORCID profiles for their efforts in keeping their standards, databases and policies up to date, and nearly 100 maintainers have taken part this year! Back in 2021, FAIRsharing became a trusted organisation with ORCID. We used that status to enhance our login […]

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FAIRsharing Community brings 2024 to a close with 4000+ record edits

As 2024 draws to a close, we at FAIRsharing would like to shine some colourful fairy lights on our community members. Not only do they provide valuable feedback and suggestions around new features, they also provide about one third of the curation that happens in FAIRsharing. FAIRsharing is entirely manually curated, which makes us thankful […]

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RDA FAIRsharing WG at RDA23

The RDA FAIRsharing WG continues to collaborate with a number of other Research Data Alliance (RDA) working groups. Here we provide you with a summary of what we’ve been doing since the last plenary as well as what we’re involved with as we approach the next plenary, RDA23, in Costa Rica 12-14 November. RDA23 in […]

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Databases Demystified

Ever wondered how many open access and deposition repositories there are out there? Let FAIRsharing help you find out! This post will include various exemplars of how to use the FAIRsharing Advanced and Saved Searches to your advantage when exploring the landscape of research databases across all subject areas. The content will also posted on […]

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FAIRsharing is on Summer holiday

It’s time for our team to disconnect: log out of Teams, Zoom, Zulip and emails and have a well deserved summer break!We couldn’t leave without first giving our usual big THANK-YOU to all our collaborators and friends. We’ll see you all in September! In the Northern Hemisphere, summer has arrived, and around the world universities […]

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Community Champions enhance metadata across the entire database registry

FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun more than 1 year ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every database-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing database registry. This resulted in more than thousands of edits over 2100 database records, and improves database transparency and readability across the […]

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Data Stewardship Wizard and FAIRsharing collaborate to share policy, database and standard metadata

Building on a strong history of collaboration and the needs of international user communities, the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) and FAIRsharing are in the process of increasing the connectivity of these widely used resources.

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FAIRsharing grows roots into Oxford research support

FAIRsharing is pleased to announce stronger ties to University of Oxford’s research support expertise and teams, in the form of four new Community Champions. This collaboration will result in greater connectivity for FAIRsharing’s registry and educational provision within Oxford’s Research Practice Programme and Community. Our new FAIRsharing Champions have a strong background, and leadership roles, […]

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New FAIRsharing Policy factsheet now available

We are proud to announce a new factsheet within our Content series: FAIRsharing content: policies overview. This factsheet provides key information about the policy registry and how you can make the most of it in your FAIR-enabling practices. It is part of our broader FAIRsharing Educational component, where we publish sets of infographics and factsheets […]

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Community Champions complete update on the FAIRsharing policy registry

FAIRsharing Community Champions and in-house FAIRsharing staff have completed a massive curation effort begun 6 months ago, resulting in the curation and checking of every policy-specific field across the entire FAIRsharing policy registry. This resulted in more than 2800 individual edits across over 250 policy records, and improves policy transparency and readability across the entire […]