The perks of Dryad’s ‘Private for Peer Review’ feature

Data is important to assessing the accuracy of a scholarly research article. That’s why Dryad offers Private for Peer Review — an optional feature that grants controlled access for journal staff, editors, and peer reviewers before datasets are published. When … Continue reading

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

Why trust Dryad with your research data?

Seven factors that set Dryad apart

Data availability is an important aspect of communicating scholarly research. Not only has public data been shown to increase understanding, support reproducibility, increase attention, and facilitate reuse — it’s increasingly required by funders and publishers. There are plenty of ways … Continue reading

Announcing a new integration between openRxiv and Dryad

Post your preprint and publish your data at the same time

Dryad is excited to announce a partnership with openRxiv to enable an integration with the preprint server bioRxiv. Beginning today, authors posting preprints to bioRxiv will have the opportunity to upload their data and metadata to Dryad at the same … 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

Support Dryad’s essential Open Science infrastructure through SCOSS

Dryad has been recognized by SCOSS as providing essential international open science infrastructure since December 2022. We’re honored that SCOSS coalition members from around the world continue to see Dryad data curation, publication, and preservation as essential to the future of Open Science. And we couldn’t agree more. 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