As part of my role at Springer Nature, I have spent the last year involved in an outreach project that aims to better understand the issues faced by institutions within the rapidly developing area of sharing research data.

The Data Publishing team has been on the road in February and March, presenting our work at the International Digital Curation Conference in Barcelona and the Research Data Archiving and Preservation Summit in Chicago. The slides and other outputs are now published and available for anyone who didn't make it to the events in person.

Access the anonymised raw data underlying our recent whitepaper

Recent white paper based on survey of >7,700 researchers worldwide

Imaging data repositories join the Scientific Data recommended repositories list

Sharing news of our white paper, Research Data Support and more from RDA in Berlin

Poster based on research data whitepaper

Interview with our Research Data Manager, Rebecca Grant

Forty years ago, the introduction of modern meta-analysis brought the scientific method to reviews and syntheses of research results from multiple studies. The consequences of its widespread adoption have fundamentally changed the way scientists view scientific information, and ushered in an era of evidence-based decisions and the resolution of fundamental questions in medicine, ecology, psychology and many other fields.