Training and awareness

The resources in this space are designed for Dryad partners to distribute to affiliated researchers. You find promotional materials to alert researchers to Dryad services and reference information on data availability best practices.

Upcoming sessions

Take a tour of the Dryad platform, explore best practices for data preparation, learn about built-in automation, and get a sneak peek at upcoming enhancements that make data submission seamless and publication faster. Have other topics in mind? Let us know! Contact partnerships@datadryad.org

Outreach

Promote your Dryad partnership

Make an announcement

Let your research community know that they have access to the full range of Dryad services with a press release or blog, and on social media. We’re happy to supply quotes, art, or anything else that you need! Be sure to send us a link or tag us on social media so we can help to amplify your message. Below are some examples from our partner organizations.

Institutional examples

• SUNY Fredonia researchers gain access to Dryad data platform 

• UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership 

• Partnering to Advance Research – Dryad | UW-Madison Libraries 

• Dryad Data Platform now available to Penn Researchers in response to the NIH Data Management Sharing Policy effective January 25, 2023 

Publisher and society examples

• AAAS announcement of Dryad partnership and related Editorial

• Canadian Science Publishing (CSP)

Graphics and badges

• Dryad logos are available in our GitHub repository

• Highlight your Dryad partnership by adding a badge to your website, social media, or promotional materials.

Promote the benefits of data sharing with Dryad

Training

Dryad help & FAQs

• Dryad 

— Submission requirements

— Good data practices

— Submission process

— Publication process

• Dryad API documentation

• For data creators: Top 5 reasons we can’t publish your dataset (yet)

• Webinar recording: Make your data more usable: README Files with Dryad

• Best practices for data submission in generalist repositories — A checklist

• Editorial Reference Handbook — Learn what scholarly journals and publishers require to support reproducibility and the practical implementation of FAIR principles

For institutions

Provide researchers with tailored, detailed instructions on when, why, and how to use Dryad on your institutional library website.

Model LibGuides:

• Dryad Data Repository | NC State University Libraries

• Dryad Data Repository for UW Researchers - Research Data Management

• Dryad Data Repository | UCSB Library

• Dryad - Research Data Management : Data Sharing - Library Website at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology  

• Data Management and Sharing | Stanford University

• Dryad - Data Repository | Temple University Libraries

For publishers and societies

Provide submitting authors a clear data availability policy and instructions on when, where, and how to share their data.

Model author guidelines and data policies:

• PLOS - Data availability policy 

• Rockefeller University Press - Materials and data sharing and data availability statements

• Company of Biologists - Data deposition policy 

• Fossil Record - Data quality checklist and recommendations

• Royal Society Data Sharing policy

• eLife - Data availability policy

• Taylor & Francis - Understanding and using data repositories

• Wiley - Data sharing