This year marks the 10th anniversary of the State of Open Data, a collaboration between Digital Science, Figshare, and Springer Nature, that has tracked researcher attitudes toward data sharing across 192 countries every year since 2016. The 2025 edition draws on a full decade of longitudinal evidence to identify where real progress has been made, where momentum has stalled, and what new forces are reshaping the open data landscape.

Now in its eighth year, the State of Open Data is the longest running longitudinal survey on researchers’ attitudes towards open data and open science practices. What does the 2023 survey tell us?

Exploring the research landscape of an institution has often meant turning to traditional academic databases like Web of Science or Scopus for publication information. However, open data is changing how we understand research.

One important aspect of research data management is data sharing and reuse. This post introduces a few common data licenses that enable data creators to explain what users may or may not do with a given work.

Springer Nature and Digital Science jointly released The State of Open Data 2021 Report. What’s in it?

Why does Google Scholar show higher citation counts than Scopus and Web of Science? What tools are better for tracing citations in fields outside of science and engineering?

Data is the foundation of information and knowledge. Making data openly accessible and free to use can support governments, businesses and individuals to create new value that can benefit the society, economy, and environment.

A smart city uses innovation and technology to address urban challenges, improve the effectiveness of public services, make the city more liveable and sustainable. To achieve these, open data is an essential foundation.

In August 2020, arXiv announced its entire corpus consisting 1.7 million scholarly articles is available as a free dataset on Kaggle.

Increasingly, researchers are expected to actively manage their research data throughout the life-cycle of scholarly interest. Learning research data management best practices has become essential, especially for early career researchers.