Until recently, Mark Hahnel was a PhD student in stem cell biology. Frustrated by seeing how much of his own research output didn’t make it to publications, he endeavored to do something about it by developing a scientific file sharing platform called FigShare. Recently, Mark and FigShare were taken under the wing of Digital Science, [...]
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A new tool for fighting the file drawer effect
Posted in Data sharing, Dryad features, tagged data repositories, data sharing, open data on 2012/01/24 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrating a diversity of journals
Posted in Data sharing, Dryad features, tagged journals on 2011/12/21 | Leave a Comment »
Our last post celebrated the 1000th data package in Dryad. This week, with the release of two data packages associated with articles in Ecological Monographs, we celebrate another important milestone, our 100th journal. We believe this validates one of the premises on which Dryad was founded, that a non-specialist data repository can serve as shared [...]
UK Parliament report supports Dryad and data access
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data sharing, Dryad-UK on 2011/07/28 | 1 Comment »
Dryad has won high-level support from the UK Parliament. Its Select Committee on Science and Technology has been reporting on the peer review of scientific publications. Among the questions it considered was: How far should reviewers be expected to go to assess technical soundness? The report discusses the feasibility of reviewing the underlying data behind [...]
BMJ Open: a new partner and an expanded scope
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data archiving, medical on 2011/06/27 | 3 Comments »
Dryad is pleased to welcome BMJ Open as a new partner journal, reflecting the recently expanded scope of repository to be inclusive of all of basic and applied biosciences, including medicine. BMJ Open is a new online-only, open access journal from the esteemed London-based BMJ Group. It is dedicated to publishing medical research from all [...]
A new creature in the biodiversity world: the data paper
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data archiving on 2011/06/03 | Leave a Comment »
Dryad is happy to announce a new initiative with Pensoft Publishers, the pioneering publisher behind ZooKeys and other rapid-publication open access journals, including BioRisk, Comparative Cytogenetics, International Journal of Myriapodology, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, NeoBiota, PhytoKeys, and Subterranean Biology. Dryad is working with Pensoft to support publication of data papers in the area of biodiversity, [...]
Archiving legacy data, or “Why is Dryad better than a floppy disk?”
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data archiving, data sharing on 2011/02/22 | Leave a Comment »
If you have recently published data in Dryad, chances are it was in the course of publishing an article at a partner journal that steered you our way. But you may be aware that Dryad accepts data from any peer-reviewed article in biology or biomedicine. That includes journals that are not (at least not yet) [...]
Best practices for data archiving
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/26 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers working in data-intensive science, as well as science editors and publishers thinking about data policies, may want to take note of a new article by Michael Whitlock, Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices in the current issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Whitlock has long been a leader in advocating for [...]
Video shows how to deposit data in Dryad
Posted in Data sharing, Dryad features, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/18 | Leave a Comment »
Are you curious about what’s involved in depositing data in Dryad? looking for a quick way to show colleagues how straightforward data archiving can be? Dryad’s new 2-minute video demonstrates the data deposit process from start to finish. The video is embedded on the Dryad website, and also available on SciVee. Feel free to link [...]
Journals implement data archiving policy
Posted in Data sharing, Uncategorized, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/14 | 5 Comments »
It’s January 2011– do you know where your data are? It would be a good idea to know and be ready to deposit your files in a data repository, because this month marks the implementation of the Joint Data Archiving Policy. The policy, endorsed by a consortium of prominent journals and societies, states that journals [...]
Health research funders sign on to goal of greater research data sharing
Posted in Data sharing, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/11 | 2 Comments »
An international group of major health research funders have made a “joint statement of purpose” announcing, in strong and clear terms, their intent to promote greater sharing of research data. As public and charitable funders of this research, we believe that making research data sets available to investigators beyond the original research team in a [...]
Dryad tweets
- Public domain software! RT @rOpenSci: Our rdryad pkg, the 1st #rstats package released under CC0 @datadryad http://t.co/vJFHCNQ0 21 hours ago
- Spread the word - lots of exciting science summer internship opportunities through @DataONEOrg http://t.co/rQlERyQQ 1 day ago
- RT @rOpenSci: rdryad now on CRAN - binaries coming soon http://t.co/vJFHCNQ0 cc: @datadryad 1 day ago
- RT @rOpenSci: Our #rstats wrapper to @datadryad changed from 'dryad' to 'rdryad' - v0.1 just submitted to CRAN 4 days ago
- MT @trished: Bravo to authors who deposited data at #Dryad linked to papers in @BMJ_Open. Please keep them coming http://t.co/WPn46mII 4 days ago
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