Category: Journals

For publishers: Delivering on your data sharing policy

What: Webinar – Delivering on your journal’s data sharing policy with Dryad When: Wednesday, June 28 at 5:00 PM UTC Where: Register here for this virtual event Journal editors and publishers looking to deliver on their open data sharing policies …

For journals: Benefits of our Private for Peer Review mode

Many journals rely on Dryad to publish data connected to research articles. We make it simple for editors to ensure underlying data is accessible through submission and peer review with Private for Peer Review.  With this functionality, at the poi…

You’re invited: Integrating Dryad with eJournalPress

A Dryad Webinar Please join us on Tuesday, February 21 to learn about Dryad’s recent integration with eJournalPress (eJP). Discover how to activate the free and simple integration for a corresponding eJP journal – supporting authors in making their res…

For journals: Integrate with Dryad now with eJournalPress

Journals using eJournalPress (eJP) to manage submissions and peer review can help authors make research data openly available and reusable through our seamless, API-level integration. The integration is free and simple for journals on eJP to activate a…

2022 in review: The Culture of Academic Publishing

Froom books to papers, in 2022 longstanding ways of producing and thinking about academic publications have been in a state of flux. This post brings together ten of the best posts on the theme of the culture of academic publishing that were published …

Announcing Dryad & eLife’s seamless data publishing integration

Crossposted at “Inside eLife” eLife and Dryad have long supported making research publicly accessible and reusable. Over the last years, Dryad has increasingly curated and published datasets supporting eLife publications. As the open science landscape continues to evolve, with a … Continue reading

Open Access is here to stay. But who will pay?

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already steady transition towards Open Access publishing. However, precisely what this future looks like and how it will be paid for by smaller, independent publishers is less clear. In this post, Danielle Padula outlines key findings from a report into the current state of Open Access among scholarly society and universities publishing … Continued

Navigating algorithms and affective communities in the quest for altmetric stardom

Developing a social media presence is an important ingredient for academics seeking engagement with their research. However, the binary logic rewarded by the Twitter algorithm, means that the route to altmertric stardom for some may yield abuse for others. Naomi Barnes argues that understanding how social media algorithms work is essential to ensure the ethical … Continued

The death of the literature review and the rise of the dynamic knowledge map

Almost every academic article starts with a literature review. However, although these short research summaries can be beneficial, as discussed in previous posts on the LSE Impact Blog, they also introduce opportunities for unverifiable misrepresentation and self-aggrandizement. In this post Gorgi Krlev proposes that short of abolishing them, or aiming for complete standardization of literature reviews, researchers in the social […]

Five-ish Minutes With: Charles Fox

In our latest post, our Executive Director Melissanne Scheld sits down with Dryad’s Board of Directors Chair, Professor Charles Fox, to discuss challenges researchers face today, how Dryad is helping alleviate some of those pain points, why Dryad has had … Continue reading