Enhanced integration of manuscript and data submission with PLOS
The integration of data submission to Dryad for PLOS journals has been significantly expanded and enhanced. Continue reading
Category Archives: Policy
A grand milestone for Molecular Ecology
Molecular Ecology is now the first journal to surpass 1000 data packages in Dryad. Continue reading
2014 Dryad-Dataverse Community Meeting (updated)
Updates: The originally scheduled keynote address from Phil Bourne will instead be a session on “The Future of Open Data – What to Expect from US Funders” with Jennie Larkin, Deputy Associate Director for Data Science at NIH and Peter … Continue reading
Data Citation Synthesis Group: Draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles
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
The who, what, when and why of Data Publishing Charges
As we announced earlier, Dryad will be introducing data publishing fees at the beginning of September. Here’s why we are doing this, and what it will mean for you as a submitter. Why? The Data Publishing Charge (DPC) is a … Continue reading
How to decide what data should be archived at publication
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
The Journal of Heredity adopts the Joint Data Archiving Policy in full
Our guest post today is from Mohamed Noor of Duke University, president of the American Genetic Association. The AGA is a scholarly society dating back to 1903. AGA, together with Oxford University Press, publishes the Journal of Heredity, which is … Continue reading
Sustainability planning
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An important milestone was reached when the Dryad organization officially recently adopted a cost recovery plan to ensure Dryad’s sustainability. The plan was the result of several years of deliberation among Dryad’s Interim Partners, experts in sustainability, and many prospective … Continue reading
Summer 2011 Interim Board meeting
Dryad’s new governance structure and cost recovery plan emerged from a consultation process that culminated in a meeting of the Dryad Interim Board in Vancouver, Canada in July 2011. This was the third and final meeting of this temporary governing … Continue reading