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
Author: The Dryad Team
Job opening: Full-time data curator (Remote, USA)
Dryad is now recruiting for a Data Curator to help drive and maintain the highest standards for research data curation quality and efficiency. Our future Data Curator will perform data curation tasks, and assist with process improvements, policy implementation, recruitment, … Continue reading
U.S. Policy: Evaluating Dryad’s Alignment with the National Science and Technology Council’s Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research
In May, The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released “a consistent set of desirable characteristics for data repositories” to help government agencies provide guidance to their research communities on selecting appropriate data repositories. These characteristics, covering a range of … Continue reading
Community update, July 2022
Here are a few updates from Dryad that we hope folks will find of interest. If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact us, via hello [at] datadryad [dot] org. First up: Our long-time Product Manager … Continue reading
What’s on at Dryad: News from our Autumn Community Meeting
The Dryad Team Dryad researchers, members, publishers, partners, funders and fans will be interested to see the headlines from our recent Community Meeting, where we introduced our new Executive Director, latest services for researchers, and incoming board members. The one-hour … Continue reading
Dryad appoints Jennifer Gibson as Executive Director
Dryad, the open-access repository and curation service for international research data, has announced that Jennifer Gibson (née McLennan) will join as Executive Director this October. An accomplished non-profit executive and open science advocate, Gibson’s leadership will help Dryad navigate a … Continue reading
Dryad Welcomes Interim Executive Director Patricia Cruse
By Johan Nilsson, Chairperson, Dryad Board of Directors As Chair of the Dryad Board of Directors, it is exciting to see how much Dryad has grown over the past 10 years to a truly international and impactful organization. Year on … Continue reading
Dryad’s Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
Researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers have relied on Dryad for over 10 years to support open data publishing. Throughout, we have taken our responsibility as open infrastructure seriously. As a small nonprofit working in a crowded and complicated scholarly communications … Continue reading
Promoting our Open Source Communities
Dryad believes in the power and potential for Open Source solutions to tackle the challenges that face scholarly communications. As part of this strategy, the Dryad platform is completely Open Source and our code is made publicly available on GitHub. In addition, we … Continue reading →
Tracy Teal named new Dryad ED
After an extensive search led by Dryad’s Board of Directors, we are proud to announce that Dr. Tracy Teal will join Dryad as Executive Director beginning February 17, 2020. She has extensive experience leading a global, community-oriented non-profit, and we’re … Continue reading →