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General exciting news and announcements from Dryad!

openRxiv and Dryad expand their partnership

Publish data on Dryad when posting a preprint to bioRxiv or medRxiv

In September 2025, openRxiv and Dryad announced a new partnership and technological integration enabling researchers to publish data on Dryad as part of the bioRxiv preprint posting workflow. Six months on, we’re excited to extend our collaboration to include medRxiv … Continue reading

The perks of Dryad’s ‘Private for Peer Review’ feature

Data is important to assessing the accuracy of a scholarly research article. That’s why Dryad offers Private for Peer Review — an optional feature that grants controlled access for journal staff, editors, and peer reviewers before datasets are published. When … Continue reading

Dryad community update: October 2025 highlights

We’re excited to share the latest advances in Dryad data curation, publication, and preservation with you. Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure Hear Dryad Executive Director Jennifer Gibson and Karl Benedict, recently retired from the University of New Mexico, one of Dryad’s … Continue reading

Why trust Dryad with your research data?

Seven factors that set Dryad apart

Data availability is an important aspect of communicating scholarly research. Not only has public data been shown to increase understanding, support reproducibility, increase attention, and facilitate reuse — it’s increasingly required by funders and publishers. There are plenty of ways … Continue reading