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.

Research data management doesn’t have to be monotonous and tedious. Today we’d like to introduce six games that offer a fun and engaging approach to learning about research data management.

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?

Happy February! 12-16 February 2024 marks the annual international event of Love Data Week.

The FORCE11-COPE Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group has released a set of flowcharts aimed at promoting best practices around ethical challenges in data publication.

Sensitive data refers to data that needs protection from unauthorized disclosure. It's important to safeguard access to sensitive research data, and any sharing of it should be carefully planned.

This week we share a simple but important practice about organizing data files and documents for submitting papers to journals.

We are pleased to announce the launch of DMPTool@HKUST, a data management plan (DMP) writing platform at HKUST.

The value of research data can go way beyond the project for which it is created. Well-managed data can optimize it’s re-usability and research reproducibility; it also helps researchers to demonstrate good research practice and integrity.

More and more journals require you to write a Data Availability Statement (DAS) when you submit a manuscript. What is DAS? How do you write one?