As an institutional member, the University of Arkansas Libraries has partnered with the Dryad Data Platform to provide easy access to generalist data repositories that support the requirements of journal publishers, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other government funding agencies. Masu. Until 2024, libraries will cover the storage costs of data placed in their repositories. The library's participation in the Greater Western Library Alliance facilitated U of A's membership in her Dryad.
According to its website, Dryad is “an open data publishing platform and community committed to the open availability and routine reuse of all research data” for use in National Institutes of Health grants. is recommended as a generalist repository. As a nonprofit organization, we exist to foster an environment in which research data is openly available, managed, preserved, integrated into publications, and regularly reused to generate knowledge. Dryad has a long history of supporting ecology and evolutionary biology since its founding in 2008 with a grant from the National Science Foundation. Since then, it has expanded internationally and supports the storage of a wide range of data in a variety of subject areas. In 2024, the Dryad platform will represent over 50,000 data publications, the result of his over 200,000 researchers associated with over 70,000 international institutions and over 1,000 academic journals.
The Dryad dataset is Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index, Scopus and Google dataset search. Each dataset is given a unique digital object identifier. Typing that identifier into any browser takes the user to the dataset's landing page. Dryad also provides faceted search and browsing capabilities for direct discovery. Additionally, Dryad provides all the citations related to each dataset on the landing page. These are updated as new quotes from articles or other sources are published.
Researchers need to store data in Dryad for the following reasons:
- In doing so, it meets the requirements of national funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
- No deposit fees until 2024
- Depositing your data with Dryad supports private access to your data products during peer review and connects you to your U of A and ORCID accounts.
- Dryad provides digital object identifiers for datasets and supports storage of code, scripts, and software through a partnership with Zenodo.
- Up to 300 GB is allowed per data deposit and allows versioning of datasets.
- Permanently archive datasets in the University of California's CoreTrustSeal certified merit repository.
Information on how to participate is available in the Dryad Research Guide in the library. Questions can be sent to uarepos@uark.edu.