Researchers working in data-intensive science, as well as science editors and publishers thinking about data policies, may want to take note of a new article by Michael Whitlock, Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices in the current issue … Continue reading
Are you curious about what’s involved in depositing data in Dryad? looking for a quick way to show colleagues how straightforward data archiving can be? Dryad’s new 2-minute video demonstrates the data deposit process from start to finish. The video … Continue reading
It’s January 2011– do you know where your data are? It would be a good idea to know and be ready to deposit your files in a data repository, because this month marks the implementation of the Joint Data Archiving … Continue reading
An international group of major health research funders have made a “joint statement of purpose” announcing, in strong and clear terms, their intent to promote greater sharing of research data. As public and charitable funders of this research, we believe … Continue reading
The Journal of Evolutionary Biology, the journal of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, has just published an editorial supporting data archiving. The editorial is now available online: The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology. Allen J. Moore, Mark … Continue reading
The journal Evolution has joined other Dryad partner journals in announcing a new data archiving policy mandating, as a condition of publication, that the data used in a paper be made publicly available. The editorial says Data that are properly … Continue reading
A new commentary piece, Linking big: the continuing promise of evolutionary synthesis, in the journal Evolution describes the promise of “synthetic science,” which includes re-use of data sets, research results, or unconnected methods or concepts, leading to new discoveries or … Continue reading
A strong editorial on data archiving is now available online in the February issue of The American Naturalist. Authors Michael C. Whitlock, Mark A. McPeek, Mark D. Rausher, Loren Rieseberg, and Allen J. Moore present the case for the importance of data archiving in science. This is the first … Continue reading
In order to make data submission to Dryad as easy as possible for authors, the system piggybacks in an innovative way on the journal submission process. The key is that most authors will be submitting their data to Dryad immediately … Continue reading