Dryad

Who Can Use This Service

OU employees doing research.

Benefits of Using Dryad

Dryad curators thoroughly evaluate each data submission, including research metadata and related objects, to verify that the data are accessible, organized, intelligible, and complete, thereby ensuring ease of reuse. Curators work with researchers to confirm that data are appropriate for open sharing, follow FAIR principles, and meet ethical standards for publication. They also offer guidance on best practices for creating reusable data and help authors navigate publication requirements.

The following highlights additional benefits of using 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 Seal-certified repository.

Costs/Charges

Partner organizations that sponsor Data Publishing Charges (DPCs) fully cover author data submissions up to 10 GB. For datasets larger than 10 GB, a large data fee will be charged to either the author or their sponsoring organization, depending on the specific partner agreement with Dryad.

Effective May 6, 2025, large data fees are billed as follows:

• 10 GB-50 GB Fee: $259
• 50 GB-100 GB Fee: $464
• 100 GB-250 GB Fee: $1,123
• 250 GB-500 GB Fee: $2,153
• 500 GB-1 TB Fee: $4,347
• 1 TB-2 TB Fee: $8,809

We are sensitive to the fact that fees for individual researchers are a burden and create inequities. To better accommodate researchers who lack funds to pay the Data Publishing Charge, we've expanded our waiver policy so that any author may request one. To submit your request for consideration, complete the fee waiver application form, and await a response before submitting your dataset. Waivers will not be approved for data submissions exceeding 10 GB.