Science journals integrate Dryad to simplify data deposition and strengthen scientific reproducibility | STM Publishing News

"The Science family journals have announced a partnership with the nonprofit data repository Dryad that simplifies the process by which authors deposit data underlying new work – a critical step to facilitating data’s routine reuse. The partnership is yet another step taken by the Science journals to ensure data the scientific community requires to verify, replicate and reanalyze new research is openly available. “Addressing public access to data at scale is a critical challenge,” said Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals. “We’re committed to supporting authors in making their data become more findable, accessible, and reusable going forward.” The Science journals already require data underlying results in published papers to be publicly and immediately available, a large component of which has been directing authors to data repositories. In recent years, Science editors have been pleased to see an increase in data deposition at these sites; an analysis of Science papers published in 2020, for example, found that nearly three-quarters used external public repositories...."