Now more than ever, Open Data infrastructure is essential

At a moment defined by uncertainty, skepticism, and especially tight resources, Open Data offers a practical, powerful way to strengthen research, rebuild confidence in the scholarly record, increase efficiency, and accelerate discovery. Dryad is uniquely positioned to help researchers realize … Continue reading

Dryad community update: October 2025 highlights

We’re excited to share the latest advances in Dryad data curation, publication, and preservation with you. Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure Hear Dryad Executive Director Jennifer Gibson and Karl Benedict, recently retired from the University of New Mexico, one of Dryad’s … Continue reading

How Dryad data curators help make data sharing simple for researchers

Data sharing can be challenging. Dryad’s experienced data curators smooth the way with expert, hands-on support for researchers to ensure that all the data we publish is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Continue reading

A warm welcome to Dryad’s ten newest partners

More than 80 institutions, publishers, academic societies, and other organizations worldwide partner with Dryad to sponsor data curation, publication, and preservation for their researchers. We’re thrilled to welcome ten new members to our community Continue reading

Introducing the Dryad partner program and updated fee structure: A scalable, community-driven approach to funding open data and researcher support

Today, Dryad announces a new partner program and fee structure. The updates represent a fresh approach to funding that promises to ensure our robustness as an organization and enable us to meet the demands for data sharing and researcher support now and in the future. Under our new fee structure, all authors pay a Data Publication Charge that scales with use to reflect the true costs of this work. Continue reading

PIDs and the discoverability of relevant research data

Post by Audrey Hamelers, Senior Software Developer and the Dryad team Is there a published article associated with a particular dataset? Have the authors deposited any other data? Are there other Dryad datasets associated with the same journal? Following an … Continue reading

For researchers: Upholding scientific research integrity with Dryad

Guest post by Dryad Senior Data Curator Molly Hirst A 2017 study revealed that over one-third of researchers surveyed admitted to some level of research misconduct, such as falsifying or omitting data. These alarming findings underscore the systemic challenges researchers … Continue reading