Libraries at Work Creating Opportunities for Success Across Campus
Libraries at Work Creating Opportunities for Success Across Campus
Partnering to Advance Research UW – Madison is now a member of Dryad , an open-access data repository where researchers can publish and publicly share research data . Dryad was started by a community of researchers and is used worldwide to meet funder and publisher mandates for data publication . As yet another great example of the effort to advance emerging research , the Libraries are pleased to share that depositing in Dryad is now free to UW – Madison researchers , thanks to a membership pursued in partnership between the Libraries and Division of Information Technology ( DoIT ).
“ Addressing public access to data at scale for the campus is an exciting challenge and opportunity that requires leveraging expertise and resources across campus to build out sustainable and easy-to-use solutions ,” says Cameron Cook , Digital Curation Coordinator and chair of Research Data Services . “ We ’ re thrilled to have such great partners in DoIT , who are helping us accomplish this work .”
Dryad , a repository recommended by UW-Madison for several years , is the first part of a twopronged approach to increase the functionality of data storage on campus . Not only will it make it easier , the second phase will improve the deposit capacity and data transfer capabilities of MINDS @ UW , enabling improved access / experience for larger datasets . The goal is to continue supporting , managing , preserving , and making research data and other outputs available .
“ This pilot will help us learn how two important resources can help UW – Madison researchers ,” explains Jan Cheetham , Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure at DoIT . “ Dryad and MINDS @ UW help address the growing requirement for data sharing many researchers face .”
Quick facts about Dryad : Complete journal integration – Dryad leads the way in data publishing through partnerships with major publishers and journals to make manuscript submission easy .
Compliance with funder mandates – Dryad ’ s combination of services meets funder data sharing mandates .
Track the reach of your data – Dryad provides metrics that measure the number of times an individual data publication has been viewed , cited , and downloaded .
Seamlessly connect software and data – when researchers submit to Dryad , they have the option to upload code , scripts , and software packages which will be automatically sent to Zenodo .
First-rate data quality – a professional curator reviews all data submitted to Dryad for data and metadata integrity . Maximized data discovery – Dryad ’ s data publications are citable , shareable , and discoverable through major indexing services like Google Dataset Search and more . Robust infrastructure and preservation services – all data published in Dryad are safely preserved in a Core Trust Sealcertified repository .
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