Dryad is pleased to have received a 3 year Sustaining Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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A snapshot of life on the savannah
Our latest featured data package is from Alexandra Swanson and colleagues at the Snapshot Serengeti project, and accompanies their peer-reviewed article in Scientific Data. It provides a unique resource for studying the one of the world’s most extraordinary mammal assemblages and also for studies of computer vision and machine learning. In addition, data from Snapshot Serengeti is already being used in biology and computer science classrooms to enable […]
Introducing our new Executive Director Meredith Morovati
We are delighted to introduce Meredith to the Dryad community. She assumed the role of Executive Director in late 2014, and now that she has had a few months to settle in, we thought this would be a good time to check in with her and and hear about her plans for the organization
Four newly sponsored journals from Nordic Society Oikos
We are delighted to announce the integration of four new journals: Ecography, Journal of Avian Biology, Nordic Journal of Botany, and Oikos. The Nordic Society Oikos, which supports scientific research in ecology and related disciplines and to stimulate and enhance communication between stakeholders in ecological research in the Nordic countries and beyond, owns these journals, and is generously […]
Enhanced integration of manuscript and data submission with PLOS
The integration of data submission to Dryad for PLOS journals has been significantly expanded and enhanced.
A grand milestone for Molecular Ecology
Molecular Ecology is now the first journal to surpass 1000 data packages in Dryad.
Applications open for Dryad Executive Director
Dryad is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic Executive Director, ideally with experience in scientific or biomedical research, librarianship, or publishing, to oversee development and operation of the organisation during a period of rapid growth and transformation. The role reports to the Board of Directors. Externally, the postholder will be responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, […]
Tamiflu, Relenza, and influenza: what the data do (or don’t) tell us
The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and Carl Heneghan from the University of Oxford. We asked them to tell the story behind their recent Cochrane systematic review [1] and dataset in Dryad [2] which holds valuable lessons about the evidence-base on […]