Across the research ecosystem, from researchers, to institutions, to societies and publishers, rapid shifts and limited resources are challenging everyone to do more with less, while responding dynamically to rapidly changing needs.

Open infrastructures like Dryad have a vital role to play in upholding research standards, saving researcher time and effort, and publishing and preserving vital research outputs — especially in times like these. Open data infrastructure in particular has been shown to improve efficiency, enhance innovation, and drive growth. Open tools are also 87-94% less expensive than commercial equivalents according to one study.

At Dryad, we’re thinking strategically, working collaboratively, and continuing to press forward in support of rapid, reliable research.

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New from Dryad

• As the demand and opportunity to share research data intensifies across disciplines, a particular kind of editorial expertise is coming into focus: the Data Editor. Read our take on the rise of this specialized skillset.

• Researchers Ted Habermann and Erin Robinson are taking a closer look at how public datasets measure up to FAIR data standards. Dryad was found to have some of the most complete metadata of the 595 repositories sampled, and was the only major generalist repository in the top 25. (Only three university repositories with a few hundred records apiece boasted more complete metadata.)

• Learn how Dryad and CEDAR are working together to leverage generalist infrastructure to support discipline-specific metadata and reporting requirements.

• What makes Dryad the right home for human research data? Read our interview with researcher and author Ann Van de Winckel to find out.

• COMING SOON: Dryad is gearing up to introduce the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) to our author records. CRediT describes each authors’ contribution to a particular study, improving accountability and fairness.

When and why might open infrastructure fail? And what could the research community lose if it does? 
Jennifer Gibson, executive director of Dryad, and Kaitlin Thaney, executive director of  Invest in Open Infrastructure probe these and other questions in a recent article in Issues Magazine, “Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running?” exploring the value open infrastructure brings, and the challenges it faces.

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