What is Dryad?
Dryad is a data publishing platform that allows researchers to share, find, use and cite data across all disciplines. Dryad curates data sets to endure they are findable, accessible, reusable, and interoperable. GVSU is a member institution which allows for single sign on (SSO) with your existing GVSU credentials. Accounts under the GVSU membership are allotted 300GB of storage per data set. There is no limit to the amount of storage each researcher can have, nor the number of data sets they store at Dryad.
Accessing Dryad
If you already have a Dryad account, you can associate it with GVSU by going into your account and adding GVSU as a member institution. Enter Grand Valley State University in the pull-down menu and click the ‘Login to verify’ button.
Once you’ve verified your affiliation, you will see GVSU in your account:
If you have not used DRYAD before, you will need to create your account and link it to GVSU. From the homepage of Dryad choose the Login link in the top right corner.
Scroll down and choose the “Login or create your ORCID iD” link.
Note – if you do not yet have an ORCID iD, you will want to create one prior to creating this account.
Scroll down to sign in through your institution and click the link:
Enter Grand Valley State University in the box and click continue:
You should see this screen, click Continue:
You will need to login with your ORCID account to link it to this login:
Next you will have to authorize this linkage:
Now that you are logged in, find GVSU in the drop down menu and click ‘Login to verify’:
Your account is now setup within the GVSU instance. We highly recommend walking through the Help menu if you have not used Dryad or any other data repository to familiarize yourself with the creation and curation of data sets, sharing, and other options.