Strategic Partnerships Capitalize on Dryad’s multi stakeholder model and existing partnerships with scholarly societies and publishers to drive new collaborations. Target academic institutions and funders by offering seamless data deposition at manuscript submission, automatic DOIs, and funder data sharing mandates to expand adoption and data reuse across ecosystems.

Funder Compliance Position Dryad as the platform that helps researchers meet funder data sharing requirements and enables proper data citation. Develop offerings for funders and consortia that include deposition services, audit trails, metrics on reuse, and institutional adoption deals to scale through grant driven budgets.

Workflow Integration Emphasize the ability to integrate into manuscript workflows and research platforms, as demonstrated by partnerships with eJournalPress. Offer API access and professional integration services to publishers and journals, plus connectors to ORCID and institutional repositories to accelerate data publication.

Institutional Expansion Target universities, research institutes, and consortia as enterprise customers. Propose branded data repositories, centralized procurement, and long term data stewardship packages supported by Dryad’s curated dataset catalog to attract institutional subscriptions and multi year deals.

Data Curation Value Differentiate with enhanced data curation, metadata quality assurance, and governance services. Offer premium curation tiers, standards alignment, and persistent identifiers to improve data reuse and compliance with open science mandates, creating upsell opportunities alongside the core data publishing service.