Dryad Data Repository

Northwestern University is an institutional member of Dryad is a non-profit, community-governed data repository. Sharing data in Dryad complies with funder and publisher data-sharing polices.

 

Features and Benefits

  • Publicly share research data, code and other research materials in one submission process.
  • Privately share data, code and supplemental materials with reviewers during manuscript review.
  • Ensure data and metadata integrity using Dryad’s curation service.
  • Make your data easily citable and accessible using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
  • Increase findability of your data with indexing in Google Dataset Search and other search engines.
  • Guarantee access to your data indefinitely with Dryad’s preservation policy.

 

Restrictions

  • All data will be published under a CC-0 license to facilitate reuse. If your submission also contains code and other supplementary material, these files can be uploaded via Dryad and published in Zenodo.
  • Dryad does not accept data containing personally identifiable human subject information. All human subjects data must be properly anonymized before submission.
  • Individual files should not exceed 10 GB.
  • Contact Dryad for assistance to submit files containing more than 300 GB of material.

 

Available to

  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff

 

Cost

None

 

How to Request Service

Any Northwestern researcher can request publication funding support through Northwestern University Libraries by emailing dieyun.song@northwestern.edu to publicly share their research data in Dryad.
All Dryad users log in to the platform with an Open Researcher Contributor ID (ORCiD). To log in to Dryad:

 

Support Resources

 

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