Dryad Community update: April 2026 highlights

The first months of 2026 have been busy ones for Dryad. We’re forging new partnerships and expanding longstanding ones, speaking out in the Open Science community, and supporting research integrity.  Updates from Dryad Data is important to assessing the accuracy … Continue reading

openRxiv and Dryad expand their partnership

Publish data on Dryad when posting a preprint to bioRxiv or medRxiv

In September 2025, openRxiv and Dryad announced a new partnership and technological integration enabling researchers to publish data on Dryad as part of the bioRxiv preprint posting workflow. Six months on, we’re excited to extend our collaboration to include medRxiv … Continue reading

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