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 [...]
1E+3
Posted in Dryad features, tagged data archiving on 2011/10/07 | 1 Comment »
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and that Helen of Troy (Fig 1) had a face that launched a thousand ships. Why is the number 1000 significant to those of us at Dryad today? (Especially since its place in literature is ultimately an accident of our decimal number system [1]). [...]
Why does Dryad use CC0?
Posted in Dryad features, tagged open data on 2011/10/05 | 1 Comment »
Early in the process of depositing data to the Dryad repository, authors are asked to consent to the explicit release of their data into the public domain under the terms of a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) waiver. We are frequently asked why Dryad uses CC0 rather than a license such as CC-BY, and it is [...]
Request for input: archiving and licensing software
Posted in Dryad features, Uncategorized on 2011/06/19 | 9 Comments »
Behind a scientific finding, in addition to unique data, there is often unique software. If Dryad archives data in part to allow others to validate the findings reported in the literature, then should we not also enable researchers to archive the software that was used to process, analyze and, in the case of simulations — [...]
Dryad newsletter January 2011
Posted in Dryad features, tagged data archiving on 2011/01/31 | 4 Comments »
This is an important month, because a host of our partner journals are implementing new policies on data archiving, and, in the U.S., the National Science Foundation is asking its new grantees to have explicit data management plans. There are over 1000 data files from over 50 journals now in Dryad, and much of this [...]
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 [...]
What happens after you submit your data to Dryad?
Posted in Dryad features, Uncategorized, tagged data curation on 2010/12/02 | 2 Comments »
Ever wonder what happens to your Dryad data behind the scenes? Here’s a quick overview. Once a depositor has uploaded their data files and finalized their submission, the Dryad curator is notified of the new content. The curator looks at the uploaded files to make sure they really do contain data (and not, say, the [...]
Tweeting new data deposits
Posted in Data sharing, Dryad features, tagged data sharing on 2010/11/02 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve created a new Twitter feed for announcing all new data packages added to Dryad. It’s @datadryadnew — follow it if you want to keep an eye on what is going in to the repository. Our @datadryad feed is also available, for updates on the Dryad repository and data sharing in general.
Dryad 1.7: save partial submissions, push data to TreeBASE, download citations, and more
Posted in Dryad features on 2010/10/06 | Leave a Comment »
The Dryad team is pleased to announce a new release (1.7) with several powerful and much-requested features. Dryad’s revamped submission system enables partial submissions to be saved so that authors can complete their submissions over multiple sessions, when needed. This has been the number one request from users. “Handshaking” is the process of coordinated data [...]
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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