Introducing the Dryad partner program and updated fee structure: A scalable, community-driven approach to funding open data and researcher support

Today, Dryad announces a new partner program and fee structure. The updates represent a fresh approach to funding that promises to ensure our robustness as an organization and enable us to meet the demands for data sharing and researcher support now and in the future. Under our new fee structure, all authors pay a Data Publication Charge that scales with use to reflect the true costs of this work. Continue reading

PIDs and the discoverability of relevant research data

Post by Audrey Hamelers, Senior Software Developer and the Dryad team Is there a published article associated with a particular dataset? Have the authors deposited any other data? Are there other Dryad datasets associated with the same journal? Following an … Continue reading

Merritt and Dryad Certified by CoreTrustSeal as Trustworthy Repositories

This post, authored by Stephen Abrams, originally appeared on the CDLINFO blog. University of California Curation Center (UC3) is happy to announce that its Merritt repository and Dryad’s underlying technical platform (Dash) have received CoreTrustSeal certification. This certification helps to instill transparency and accountability to … Continue reading