In July, 2019 we were proud to announce a funded partnership between Dryad and Zenodo. Today, we are excited to give an update on our future together. Dryad and Zenodo have both been leading the way in open-source data, software, … Continue reading →
Category: New features
Deep Roots & Strong Branches: A Recap and Preview of Dryad’s Development Plans
Happy 2020! Kicking off the new year, our product development team wanted to take a moment to introduce our development processes and provide a glimpse into Dryad’s future directions. 2019 was an exciting year with our growth of 15% in … Continue reading →
New Dryad is Here
The Dryad team has worked over the past year to understand what features are required to best support the research community’s ever-evolving needs. We are proud to announce the launch of our new Dryad platform and we are excited to … Continue reading →
Funded Partnership Brings Dryad and Zenodo Closer
By Daniella Lowenberg (Cross posted at Zenodo) With increasing mandates and initiatives around open data and software, researchers commonly have to make a choice about where to deposit their non-article outputs. Unfortunately, systems that are built to accommodate these objects … Continue reading →
The way forward at Dryad
Melissanne Scheld, Executive Director, takes time to reflect on the Dryad/CDL partnership and to share thoughts on the direction of this collaborative effort. It’s been a fast two months since I joined Dryad at this pivotal and exciting juncture. As … Continue reading →
Technical update — Schema.org and Google Dataset Search
A core part of Dryad’s mission is to make our data available as widely as possible. Although most users find Dryad content through our website or via links from journal articles, many users also find Dryad content through search aggregators … Continue reading →
Improvements in data-article linking
Dryad is a curated, non-profit, general-purpose repository specifically for data underlying scientific and medical publications — mainly journal articles. As such, we place great importance on linking data packages to the articles with which they are associated, and we try our best to encourage authors and journals to link back to the Dryad data from the […]
Exciting new partnership for long-term preservation of Dryad data
Keeping research data open and accessible has always been our goal at Dryad. Now, we’ve partnered with Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) to ensure long-term preservation of curated data. We are proud to be taking this step to safeguard open data and ensure future discoverability. Public content on Dryad servers, currently over 15,000 data […]
Piloting new ways for funders to support data stewardship
The question of who should pay for the preservation and stewardship of open research data remains unresolved, at a time when journals and funders alike are adopting strong open data policies. As a non-profit repository that relies on financial support from members and users, we at Dryad deal with this question daily, and are eager to help find […]