Celebrating a diversity of journals

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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 infrastructure for a large and diverse set of journals.  As a group, they have little in common, serving authors and readers from many different research communities, nationalities, types of institutional affiliation, etc., and working with many different kinds of data.  Some are owned by societies, some by commercial publishers, some by not-for-profits.  Some are Open Access, many are not.  Some have specialized disciplinary or taxonomic scope (e.g. including journals that publish on birds, herps, insects, mammals, plants, protists, viruses, etc.) while some publish findings from all corners of science (Nature, PNAS, Science).

Interestingly, this set of 100 is roughly five times the number of journals that have integrated manuscript submission with Dryad in order to facilitate authors’ data archiving.  While the integrated journals still account for the majority of new data submissions, we are pleased to continue receiving data volunteered by authors publishing in outlets new to Dryad.

The journals that have integrated their manuscript processing with Dryad to date are mostly, though not exclusively, from the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology:

  • The American Naturalist
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • BMJ Open (an important first step in that it is our first integrated biomedical journal)
  • Ecological Monographs
  • Evolution
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Heredity
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Journal of Heredity
  • Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Paleobiology
  • Pensoft Publishers – 8 different journals
  • Systematic Biology

But Dryad’s broadening disciplinary coverage is best illustrated by listing some of the journals with content in the repository that have not, at least not yet, implemented integrated submission:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biotropica
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Evolution and Development
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Human Genomics
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
  • The Journal of Parasitology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • The Plant Cell
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Symbiosis
  • Toxicon

And we are particularly pleased by the irony of hosting data from Genesis 😉

If you are an editor, publisher, or just a passionate reader of a journal that currently has content in Dryad (you can find out for yourself here), and you would like to talk about how manuscript submission integration could strengthen the service that Dryad provides to your journal, then please contact us.