Using Northwestern University's Dryad Membership

We strongly encourage all Quest users to review the summary of post-maintenance changes as these changes could immediately impact your workflow after the Quest March 2025 downtime.

Anyone with a Northwestern NetID can use Northwestern’s Institutional Dryad Membership at any time. 

All Dryad users log in to the platform with an Open Researcher Contributor ID (ORCiD). To log in to Dryad: 

• Link your NetID to an ORCiD  

• Log into Dryad with your ORCiD credentials  

• Select Northwestern University from list of institutional members if prompted and sign in through Single Sign On (SSO). 

For help preparing a submission to the Dryad digital repository, please submit a consultation request .