Now more than ever, Open Data infrastructure is essential

At a moment defined by uncertainty, skepticism, and especially tight resources, Open Data offers a practical, powerful way to strengthen research, rebuild confidence in the scholarly record, increase efficiency, and accelerate discovery. Dryad is uniquely positioned to help researchers realize … Continue reading

Why trust Dryad with your research data?

Seven factors that set Dryad apart

Data availability is an important aspect of communicating scholarly research. Not only has public data been shown to increase understanding, support reproducibility, increase attention, and facilitate reuse — it’s increasingly required by funders and publishers. There are plenty of ways … Continue reading

Announcing a new integration between openRxiv and Dryad

Post your preprint and publish your data at the same time

Dryad is excited to announce a partnership with openRxiv to enable an integration with the preprint server bioRxiv. Beginning today, authors posting preprints to bioRxiv will have the opportunity to upload their data and metadata to Dryad at the same … Continue reading

The impact of open data: Six ways data availability benefits research, researchers, and stakeholders

How does open data benefit research, researchers, and stakeholders? Here we explore just six of the many benefits of open data. Continue reading

How Dryad data curators help make data sharing simple for researchers

Data sharing can be challenging. Dryad’s experienced data curators smooth the way with expert, hands-on support for researchers to ensure that all the data we publish is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Continue reading

In the community: Open data in academic publishing

Learn more about how Dryad has supported data sharing since our inception in 2008, and the impact we have in advancing scientific research in this recent presentation by Dryad’s Executive Director, Jen Gibson. Continue reading

Leaders in open data: Journal editors boost standards for data sharing

One of the key drivers of Dryad’s success in the years since we first went online in 2008 is our connection to journals and the research publication workflow. While now supporting data submission at any point in the research process, and showcasing data and analysis as independently important contributions to research and discovery, our ability to capture data at a crucial point in the investigator’s path to publication remains very powerful.  Continue reading