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
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
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
The US National Science Foundation, through its Advances in Biological Informatics program, has announced a new award of $2.4M over four years to Duke University (NESCent), the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Metadata Research Center), and North Carolina State University … Continue reading
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and that Helen of Troy (Fig 1) had a face that launched a thousand ships. Why is the number 1000 significant to those of us at Dryad today? (Especially … Continue reading
Dryad is pleased to welcome BMJ Open as a new partner journal, reflecting the recently expanded scope of repository to be inclusive of all of basic and applied biosciences, including medicine. BMJ Open is a new online-only, open access journal … Continue reading
Dryad is happy to announce a new initiative with Pensoft Publishers, the pioneering publisher behind ZooKeys and other rapid-publication open access journals, including BioRisk, Comparative Cytogenetics, International Journal of Myriapodology, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, NeoBiota, PhytoKeys, and Subterranean Biology. Dryad … Continue reading
If you have recently published data in Dryad, chances are it was in the course of publishing an article at a partner journal that steered you our way. But you may be aware that Dryad accepts data from any peer-reviewed … Continue reading
We encourage individuals and project teams seeking to comply with data management planning mandates to consider Dryad as the destination repository for published data from their research. Dryad is not only a widely applicable, best-practice solution for research data management, it is … Continue reading
This is an important month, because a host of our partner journals are implementing new policies on data archiving, and, in the U.S., the National Science Foundation is asking its new grantees to have explicit data management plans. There are … Continue reading