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The self-hosted Dryad alternative

Dryad is an open-access research data repository for depositing, curating, publishing, and preserving datasets associated with scholarly publications. It provides metadata, DOI assignment, quality checks, and partnerships with publishers and institutions to support compliance and reuse.

Alternatives to Dryad

Open-source research data management platform for publishing, storing, indexing and sharing datasets with rich metadata, versioning and access controls.

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What replacing Dryad actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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