For authors: Creating a README for rapid data publication
Learn how to craft a robust README file that helps promote data reusability and ensure speedy publication with Dryad. Continue reading
Category Archives: Data curation
For data creators: Top 5 reasons we can’t publish your dataset (yet)
Tips for following Dryad’s data sharing best practices to make sure your dataset is published rapidly and smoothly. Continue reading
You’re invited: Data sharing with Dryad, opportunities for PLOS authors
PLOS authors are invited to join Dryad Data Curators on Wednesday, March 8 to learn about strategies for preserving, sharing, and promoting pathogens research data, in support of open data. Continue reading
Community discussion: Making FAIR data-sharing accessible with Dryad
The work we do to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and to bring it to life for the benefit of future users is Publishing. Video recording of the FAIR Data in Practice event, organized by Open Research London, … Continue reading
Product update: Frictionless Data and Dryad join forces to validate research data
By Daniella Lowenberg and Lily Winfree. Because Dryad accepts all kinds of data, they need to curate that data for quality and ensure that the data does not present risk, and have comprehensive metadata to reuse the data. We quickly … Continue reading
Facilitating data sharing in times of crisis
Dryad has long committed to the sharing of open data, supporting authors in depositing data and providing FAIR curation to improve metadata and data quality. We believe this mission is important always, supporting the advancement of science, but in light … Continue reading
Dryad & Zenodo: Our Path Ahead
In July, 2019 we were proud to announce a funded partnership between Dryad and Zenodo. Today, we are excited to give an update on our future together. Dryad and Zenodo have both been leading the way in open-source data, software, … Continue reading
NSF Workshop Overview: Focusing on Researcher Perspectives
Since its founding, Dryad has hosted a researcher-led, open data publishing community and service. With the California Digital Library partnership in 2018, and reflecting on a decade of Dryad’s existence, we have spent time exploring what it means to remain … Continue reading
Five-ish Minutes With: Charles Fox
In our latest post, our Executive Director Melissanne Scheld sits down with Dryad’s Board of Directors Chair, Professor Charles Fox, to discuss challenges researchers face today, how Dryad is helping alleviate some of those pain points, why Dryad has had … Continue reading
Dryad celebrates international data
There’s been important discussion lately about how to make research more inclusive, equitable, diverse, and global. See the recent 2018 International Open Access Week, and International Data Week, happening now in Gaborne, Botswana, with the theme “Digital Frontiers of Global Science.” Dryad … Continue reading