Dryad appoints four new board members

Welcome Wind Cowles, Shivali Fulchand, Gareth Jenkins, and Nicholas Wolf

We’re thrilled to welcome four new members to the Dryad Board of Directors: Wind Cowles, Shivali Fulchand, Gareth Jenkins, and Nicholas Wolf. Dryad board members work closely with our leadership to help to guide the organization and shape the future … Continue reading →

“The Cost of Knowledge” and what it means for Open Data at Dryad

The theme of Open Access Week 2026 “The Cost of Knowledge” speaks to an issue close to Dryad, and one that is at the forefront of current discourse: Appropriate funding for research infrastructure. Over the past two decades the scholarly … Continue reading →

Laying a foundation for meaningful data sharing

An interview with Dr. Pradip K. Bera

For Dr. Pradip K. Bera organization and planning are both the major challenge and the key to effective data sharing. Bera is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he works … Continue reading →

Dryad gives researchers due CRediT

Beginning this September, Dryad adopted a subset of CRediT to better define author contributions to the datasets we publish.  The full Contributor Role Taxonomy, more commonly known as CRediT, establishes 14 author roles spanning the research process from ‘conceptualization’ to … Continue reading →