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]). [...]
Posts Tagged ‘data archiving’
1E+3
Posted in Dryad features, tagged data archiving on 2011/10/07 | 1 Comment »
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) [...]
How can the Dryad repository help researchers’ data management plans?
Posted in Data management plans, NSF, tagged data archiving on 2011/02/10 | 3 Comments »
We encourage individuals and project teams seeking to comply with data management planning mandates to consider Dryad as the destination repository for published data from their research. Dryad is not only a widely applicable, best-practice solution for research data management, it is also a quick and easy solution! Research datasets associated with a publication in any biological [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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- 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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