Presentation at the Database Sustainability Symposium hosted by Phoenix Bioinformatics. I’ve approached my talk in three main parts: how we think about sustainability, what the picture at Dryad looks like today, and how we’re thinking about the future. First, I’ll … Continue reading
Category: Open Infrastructure
Community discussion: Enabling open science with Dryad
Presentation at the 2022 NISO+PLUS forum on “Open Science: Catch Phrase, Or A Better Way Of Doing Research?” Session abstract, from the NISO+PLUS website: Open Science, as defined by UNESCO’s Recommendation approved November 2021, states it as “an inclusive construct … Continue reading
Goodbye, Microsoft Academic – Hello, open research infrastructure?
The announcement of the closure of Microsoft Academic later this year, may have left the research community largely unmoved, although its demise has significant implications for those working with the service’s substantial database. Here, Aaron Tay, Al…
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
Sustainable, Open Source Alternatives Exist
Authors: Dryad (Tracy Teal, Daniella Lowenberg) & Zenodo (Tim Smith, Jose Benito Gonzales, Lars Holm Nielsen, Alex Ioannidis) Crossposted at Zenodo Recently, the 4TU.ResearchData team published a blog post on their decision to take a commercial route through their repository … Continue reading