A Dryad Open House PLOS authors are invited to join Dryad Data Curators on Wednesday, March 8 to learn about strategies for preserving, sharing, and promoting pathogens research data, in support of open data. Overview: PLOS offers au…
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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…
You’re invited: Celebrating International Love Data Week
Join the Dryad team for two events celebrating ICPSR’S International Love Data Week. This year’s theme of “data as an agent of change” inspires us to think about how we can best “use data to bring about changes that matter.” … Continue reading &#…
Promoting FAIR principles in the healthcare field
In December, the 3-year EU funded (Horizon 2020), pan-European project FAIR4Health was launched, and three weeks ago I attended its first general assembly in Seville. The overall objective of FAIR4Health is stated as “to facilitate and encourage …
Hello from Magdalena – Customer Development Manager for DMPonline
Dear DMPonline users and potential new customers,
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Magdalena and I have just joined DMPonline as Customer Development Manager. I am very excited about my role, and I am looking forwar…
Hello from Magdalena – Customer Development Manager for DMPonline
Dear DMPonline users and potential new customers,
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Magdalena and I have just joined DMPonline as Customer Development Manager. I am very excited about my role, and I am looking forwar…
The main obstacles to better research data management and sharing are cultural. But change is in our hands
Recommendations on how to better support researchers in good data management and sharing practices are typically focused on developing new tools or improving infrastructure. Yet research shows the most common obstacles are actually cultural, not technological. Marta Teperek and Alastair Dunning outline how appointing data stewards and data champions can be key to improving research data management through positive cultural change. This […]
Mind the skills gap: creating a data access and reuse competency framework for government departments and organisations
Having access to the vital data collected by government departments can make a huge difference to the work of researchers in universities and charities. But for these researchers to actually access and be able to reuse this data is an often painstaking process that can take months or even longer. Richard Welpton suggests this process might be made quicker and […]
Diary of an app! Will using mobile devices in qualitative research become the norm?
Researchers have been asking participants to record their experiences and thoughts in traditional, paper-based diaries for many years. But the advent of digital technologies, especially apps for mobile devices, has encouraged some to ask whether these could become the new norm for capturing diary-based data for qualitative research. Laura Radcliffe and Leighann Spencer have pioneered the use of diary apps […]
What factors do scientists perceive as promoting or hindering scientific data reuse?
Increased calls for data sharing have formed part of many governments’ agendas to boost innovation and scientific development. Data openness for reuse also resonates with the recognised need for more transparent, reproducible science. But what are scientists’ perceptions about data reuse? Renata Gonçalves Curty, Kevin Crowston, Alison Specht, Bruce W. Grant and Elizabeth D. Dalton make use of existing survey […]