A Dryad Open House 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. Overview: PLOS offers authors the … Continue reading
Join the Dryad team for two events celebrating ICPSR’S International Love Data Week. This year’s theme of “data as an agent of change” inspires us to think about how we can best “use data to bring about changes that matter.” … Continue reading
Building on its longstanding commitment to data sharing, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has introduced an updated Policy for Data Management and Sharing, with the goal of expediting “the translation of research results into knowledge, products, and procedures to … Continue reading
We present a guest post from researcher Falk Lüsebrink highlighting the benefits of data sharing. Falk is currently working on his PhD in the Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. Here, he talks about … Continue reading
A study providing new insights into the citation boost from open data has been released in preprint form on PeerJ by Dryad researchers Heather Piwowar and Todd Vision. The researchers looked at thousands of papers reporting new microarray data and … Continue reading
If you have data packages in Dryad, consider adding a button like this next to each one on the publication list of your website or your electronic CV. You can make a link between the button and the individual data package … Continue reading
We are happy to have the opportunity to reproduce here, with permission, the full text of the recent editorial by Trish Groves and Fiona Godlee in BMJ entitled “Open Science and Reproducible Research” [BMJ 2012; 344:e4383], which also announces an expanded partnership between … Continue reading
A number of enhancements to the repository have been made in recent months, including these three that were in high demand from users: First, we have modified our submission process to enable the data to be deposited prior to editorial … Continue reading
In recent months, more journals have implemented submission integration with Dryad to make data archiving easier for authors. Technically, the process entails setting up semi-automated communications between Dryad and the manuscript submission system of the journal. Currently 24 journals have … Continue reading
A recent issue of BMJ highlighted the problem of missing clinical trial data from medical research, exploring both the causes and consequences of unpublished evidence. One of the articles, from Andrew Prayle and colleagues [1], examined compliance with the US … Continue reading