February 17, 2025

Research repository now available through Morris Library

A nonprofit, multidisciplinary, open access repository offering data curation and publishing services is available to SIU Carbondale-affiliated researchers through Morris Library.

Dryad allows researchers to publish, share and preserve their data and comply with any funding agency’s data management requirements and policies, said Andrea Imre, an associate professor and electronic resources and collections librarian. Funding agencies and publishers often require data generated during research to be deposited in a publicly available repository. 

Morris Library is sponsoring the university’s Dryad membership through the Greater Western Library Alliance consortium.

The benefits of submitting data to Dryad include:

  • 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.
  • Digital object identifiers (DOIs) — Dryad assigns a DOI to your data.
  • 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, a European data repository hosted at CERN.
  • 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 such as Google Dataset Search and more.
  • Complete journal integration — Dryad leads the way in data publishing through partnerships with major publishers and journals to make manuscript submission easy.
  • Robust infrastructure and preservation services — all data published in Dryad are safely preserved in a core trust seal-certified repository.

More information and additional guidelines are available on the library’s website or by contacting Imre at aimre@siu.edu.