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Preferred file formats
Use CSV, TSV, or ODF formats for tabular data. Excel files (XLS or XLSX) with formatting can reduce accessibility and complicate downstream analysis
Author fees
Authors affiliated with a Dryad partner will have their DPCs sponsored. (If your institution or journal is not yet a Dryad partner, please invite
Citing your dataset
As soon as you start a data submission, a DOI is reserved for that dataset in the format https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.XXXX. This, and a full citation
Collaborating on a data submission
Any authors in the author list may be invited to collaborate on the submission. Collaborators may edit all of the submission metadata and add or adjust files
Search syntax
Dryad's search checks for the main text query within most of the metadata fields of each dataset, including the title and abstract. Special syntax can help you retrieve the exact results
Private for Peer Review
The Reviewer sharing link is a temporary sharing URL that provides privileged access to your uncurated data. It is not a permanent identifier, and should be substituted with the dataset
