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UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad open-data repository

Research Excellence | Strategy 9: Knowledge Exchange
Theme: Innovation
Students in Irving K Barber Learning Centre during 2020 | Photo credit: Paul H. Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing

UBC Library has become a member of Dryad, a nonprofit membership organization and provider of a well-established open data repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable and citable. As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.

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Through Strategy 9: Knowledge Exchange, we are building expertise in knowledge exchange to help researchers across disciplines find and establish connections with community, corporate and international partners.