Monash.figshare is the University’s institutional data repository. It allows researchers to store, manage and showcase their data while retaining control over access rights and re-use conditions. In this article, graduate research student Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg discusses his experience with the platform.
As I’m writing this piece, I’m two and a half months into my PhD submission. My primary research interest is on the use of computational method to study aspects of Indonesian language from the usage-based, cognitive linguistic framework. My PhD investigates metaphors for HAPPINESS near-synonyms in Indonesian by combining the cognitive approach to metaphors and quantitative corpus linguistics. This research is fully funded by the Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarships, the Monash Graduate Scholarships, as well as the research and travel grants from Monash Graduate Education and the Faculty of Arts.
I share my research outputs, such as slides, papers, and R codes, on monash.figshare, including research produced before my candidature at Monash. I know monash.figshare via two workshops delivered by the Library on data management in research. Library staff convincingly laid out reasons why it’s important to share our data and why monash.figshare is one of the best places for it. In this post, I’ll discuss several key features of monash.figshare that I find essential for me as a postgraduate student and an early-career researcher.
First, monash.figshare makes our profile and works discoverable via search engines, such as Google. This is why it’s important to provide as many details as possible in the description and metadata fields of each item we upload. These include keywords and categories of the works, licence, external references/links, and funding information.
Second, monash.figshare provides a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that’s uniquely linked to each of our works. A cite button makes it easy to correctly cite the work in the repository; note that there are many citation styles that can be chosen. Given these two features, not only does monash.figshare help the visibility of our works, it also offers a way to properly credit the shared works (through DOI and citation feature).
We can put our ORCID ID in our monash.figshare profile to further tighten the connection of our works and our identity as a researcher; this was emphasised by the Library during the workshop. It is also possible to link to three social media profiles: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Another feature is the Altmetric data, such as the number of tweets sharing our work, item views and downloads, and citations.
In sum, I personally find that monash.figshare offers a right platform for an early-career researcher in terms of the visibility and awareness of our research and the proper way to credit them. By making my research available, I try to contribute to the open access and open science movements and to my linguistic research community, especially in Indonesia.
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg
monash.figshare: https://figshare.com/authors/G
Email: primahadiwijaya@gmail.com
Twitter: @PrimahadiWijaya
GitHub: @gederajeg
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