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Creating a Dryad account

Dryad accounts allow users to create dataset submissions for publication on Dryad, for reuse, citation, and linking with journal publications and other research outputs. Creating a Dryad account requires an individual ORCID and email address.

ORCID

Dryad requires an ORCID for login. ORCIDs are free, unique, persistant identifiers for individuals engaging in research, scholarship, and innovation. An ORCID uniquely identifies you as yourself and allows you to identify and claim your research outputs and other contributions, reducing confusion between individuals with similar names, and assigning appropriate credit. Journals, preprint servers, and other repositories for research outputs identify individuals with ORCIDs.

Dryad uses ORCID so that we can authenticate and identify each individual researcher, regardless of your route of entry to Dryad (i.e. through the website, through the API, through a journal integration, etc.). When datasets are published, they can appear in your ORCID profile along with articles and other works.

If you do not yet have an ORCID, you will have the opportunity to create one.

Multiple ORCIDs and Dryad accounts

ORCIDs are meant to be unique per individual. If you have multiple ORCIDs, log into the one ORCID account you wish to retain, and remove any duplicate ORCIDs.

If you have multiple Dryad accounts due to having multiple ORCIDs, after having your duplicate ORCIDs removed, please contact our help desk to have your Dryad accounts merged.

Other duplicate accounts

Dryad had an email-based account system prior to 2020. If there are published Dryad datasets that you submitted before 2020, but are missing from your "My datasets" page, you may have one or more of these old logins. Older accounts can be merged into an ORCID-linked account to give you revision access to all of your datasets. If you believe you have accounts that should be merged, please contact our help desk with your current ORCID and your missing dataset DOIs.

Institutional sponsorship

Dryad has publishing and institutional partners that sponsor the cost of publishing data for authors. Our institutional partners require their sponsored authors to authenticate with their systems or through a valid institutional email address. This can be done during account creation, and institutional partner sponsorship can be changed at any time from the My account page.

Account creation steps

  1. Visit the Dryad login page
  2. Click
  3. You will be redirected to the ORCID login screen, as pictured:

    Sign in to ORCID. Don't have your ORCID iD yet? Register now. Email or ORCID iD (For example: joe@institution.edu or 0000-1234-5678-9101). Password. Sign in to ORCID. Forgot your password or ORCID ID?

  4. Log into ORCID by entering your ORCID account information and password. If you do not yet have an ORCID, click "Register now" and go through the steps. Save your ORCID, which can uniquely identify you in journal publications and other research outputs.
  5. Once you have created or logged into your ORCID account, you will be automatically logged into Dryad and directed to "Choose a partner", as pictured:

    Choose a partner. ORCID login successful. Is your institution a Dryad partner? Partner institutions cover the fees for their researchers to use Dryad. Select your Dryad partner institution. Login to verify

  6. If you are associated with a Dryad partner institution, select your institution from the list, and click to complete your institution's verification process. If you are not sponsored by an institution, click
  7. The final step of creating a Dryad account is entering and verifying your email address. You will be sent an email verification code at the email address you enter. If you do not receive an email verification code, please contact the helpdesk.

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