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
The following guest post is from Tim Vines, Managing Editor of Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources. ME and MER have among the most effective data archiving policies of any Dryad partner journal, as measured by the availability of data … Continue reading
If you have data packages in Dryad, consider adding a button like this next to each one on the publication list of your website or your electronic CV. You can make a link between the button and the individual data package … Continue reading
Dryad is delighted to join with PLOS today to announce our partnership with PLOS Biology, as described here on the official PLOS Biology blog, Biologue. As the first Public Library of Science (PLOS) journal to partner with Dryad to integrate manuscript … Continue reading
A number of enhancements to the repository have been made in recent months, including these three that were in high demand from users: First, we have modified our submission process to enable the data to be deposited prior to editorial … Continue reading
Perhaps it’s understandable that paleontologists are committed to preserving the scientific record, since they spend a lot of time and energy finding and extracting shreds of evidence millions of years old. Now, thanks to a partnership between Dryad and The … Continue reading
A recent issue of BMJ highlighted the problem of missing clinical trial data from medical research, exploring both the causes and consequences of unpublished evidence. One of the articles, from Andrew Prayle and colleagues [1], examined compliance with the US … Continue reading
Until recently, Mark Hahnel was a PhD student in stem cell biology. Frustrated by seeing how much of his own research output didn’t make it to publications, he endeavored to do something about it by developing a scientific file sharing … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Dryad has won high-level support from the UK Parliament. Its Select Committee on Science and Technology has been reporting on the peer review of scientific publications. Among the questions it considered was: How far should reviewers be expected to go … Continue reading