Archive and share your data with Dryad
Dryad is an open data publishing platform and a community committed to the open availability and routine re-use of all research data.
"We make it easier to share, find, use, and cite data, and are ready-made for emerging data-sharing requirements."
- Data curation at Dryad – Ensures metadata quality; verifies data are accessible, usable, and licensed for sharing, and supports authors.
- Data publishing at Dryad – Increases discoverability of data, connects data with other research outputs, promotes data citation, and makes data count.
- The Dryad platform – Offers a smooth and easy publishing experience for authors, integrates readily with publisher workflows, runs on open-source software, and may be accessed via open API."
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is an Institutional Member of the Dryad data repository, a platform that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types. Our institutional membership means that you can deposit datasets in any discipline into Dryad at no cost. It also integrates with Zenodo, a general use repository hosted at CERN that has been paving the way in software citation and publishing. This means you can deposit your dataset into the Dryad Digital Repository along with associated code, scripts, and software packages, which will be sent directly to Zenodo.
Why use Dryad?
- Dryad can help make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) as encouraged by funders and journals
- Publish and get a DOI for your dataset
- Publish associated code, scripts, and software packages that will be sent directly to the Zenodo repository, with the ability to select the proper license
- Track usage and downloads of your datasets
- Dryad supports most data file types across disciplines
- Have the ability to deposit data and associated code, scripts, and software packages private during the peer review period
You should not use Dryad if:
- Your data is too sensitive to share publicly
- You cannot agree to the CC0 license for the datasets (and/or you cannot agree to the software licenses available to you from Zenodo, if publishing associated code, scripts, or software packages)
- Your dataset publication is larger than 300GB (for datasets larger than 300GB, contact help@datadryad.org)
- If you need to share articles or other text documents, use our institutional repository, TRACE
