Our latest featured data package is from Alexandra Swanson and colleagues at the Snapshot Serengeti project, and accompanies their peer-reviewed article in Scientific Data. It provides a unique resource for studying one of the world’s most extraordinary mammal assemblages and also for studies of computer vision and machine … Continue reading
The reason why Dryad is in the business of archiving, preserving, and providing access to research data is so that it will be reused, whether for deeper reading of the publication, for post-publication review, for education, or for future research. While it’s … Continue reading
The integration of data submission to Dryad for PLOS journals has been significantly expanded and enhanced. Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and Carl Heneghan from the University of Oxford. We asked them to tell the story behind their recent Cochrane systematic … Continue reading
We are delighted to announce the availability of the data underlying the book “40 Years of Evolution” by Peter and Rosemary Grant. In this new book, the Grants give an account of their classic, long-term study of Darwin’s finches on … Continue reading
The Data Citation Synthesis Group has released a draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles and invites comment. This has been a very interesting and positive collaborative process and has involved a number of groups and committed individuals. Encouraging the practice … Continue reading
We are celebrating the recent publication in Dryad of the first data to accompany a book [1, 2]. Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom, from Princeton University Press, examines the occasionally surprising gender differences in … Continue reading
Dryad is a nonprofit organization fully committed to making scientific and medical research data permanently available to all researchers and educators free-of-charge without barriers to reuse. For the past four years, we have engaged experts and consulted with our many … Continue reading
A study providing new insights into the citation boost from open data has been released in preprint form on PeerJ by Dryad researchers Heather Piwowar and Todd Vision. The researchers looked at thousands of papers reporting new microarray data and … Continue reading
PubMed and GenBank, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), are hugely popular resources for searching and retrieving article abstracts and nucleotide sequence data, respectively. PubMed indexes the vast majority of the biomedical literature, and deposition of nucleotide sequences … Continue reading