Data Repositories: Dryad’s Board of Directors Affirms Commitment to Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

From a Dryad Blog Post:

Researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers have relied on Dryad for over 10 years to support open data publishing. Throughout, we have taken our responsibility as open infrastructure seriously. As a small nonprofit working in a crowded and complicated scholarly communications landscape, it has been our honor to serve as an exemplar for what is possible when you remain committed to the mission and to building coalitions with like minded organizations in order to achieve success.

Since our founding, members of our board and our team have been involved in constructing best practices for open infrastructure organizations like ours. One foundational set was published as the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Since these principles were first published as a blog post in 2015, our team has worked closely with the original authors and additional collaborators to ensure Dryad aligns internal processes and external commitments to reflect these principles.

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Running open scholarly infrastructure is a journey that takes time and care. In order to formalize our commitment to these goals, the Dryad Board of Directors earlier this month unanimously voted to affirm that Dryad is committed to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. We hope that, by committing to these principles, we can preemptively address fundamental questions about accountability and sustainability that are inevitably raised regarding our services.

Learn More, Read the Complete Blog Post and Document (9 pages)

See Also: Crossref’s Board Votes to Adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (December 2, 2020)

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