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Dryad

Dryad is a non-profit data repository where researchers publish the data behind their articles, mostly in the life and environmental sciences. Through ScholarMuse, an agent searches published Dryad datasets by keyword and gets the DOI, authors, publication date, storage size, keywords, licence and the identifier of the primary article each dataset supports.

ScholarMuse tools: search_datasets. Each successful call uses credits.

Use in my agentWeb tool: Dataset finder

The web tool runs without an account, up to 5 runs a day per visitor.

Ask your agent

Find Dryad datasets on beak morphology in Darwin's finches and the article each one supports.
Is there Dryad data on Anolis lizard limb length? Give me the DOI and the size of each dataset.
Which Dryad datasets cover plant-pollinator networks in alpine meadows? List authors, keywords and licence.

What your agent gets back

Every record carries id, source, title, url, license, attribution and retrievedAt. The fields below are the data that comes from Dryad.

search_datasets

relatedArticle is present only when Dryad marks a related work as the primary article.

doi
Dataset DOI, lower case
creators
Creator names, up to 10
year
Publication year
date
Publication date as given by Dryad
description
Dataset abstract, tags removed
sizeBytes
Storage size in bytes
keywords
Author keywords, up to 8
version
Dryad version number
relatedArticle
Identifier of the primary article
license
Licence of the dataset, as an SPDX id
alsoIn
Other sources that returned the same dataset

What it covers

  • Published datasets in Dryad, as returned by its public search API.
  • Each record links to https://doi.org/ plus the dataset DOI, which resolves to the Dryad page.
  • The licence comes from each dataset's own record.

Limits

  • One call returns at most 25 datasets (default 10). When several repositories are searched together, that number is shared between them, so name Dryad alone to fill it.
  • The only search input is a keyword query. There are no year, licence, author or file-type filters; the agent has to read those fields in the results.
  • No file list, file formats or download links are returned, and the tool does not read the data files. An upstream request is abandoned after 30 seconds.

How ScholarMuse reaches Dryad

The connector calls datadryad.org/api/v2/search with the keyword query and no API key.

Responses are cached for up to 6 hours, so a dataset published at Dryad in the last few hours may not appear yet.

API key: the upstream API can be called without one, so you do not add one.

Licence and attribution

Licence: CC0-1.0

Data from Dryad (datadryad.org), CC0.

Records that come from Dryad carry this licence and attribution. When you cite the data in a paper, follow Dryad's own citation guidance.

Capabilities that use Dryad

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Related sources

DataCiteZenodoHarvard DataverseHugging Face Datasets

FAQ

ScholarMuse is not an official Dryad product. It is one MCP server for academic data, and its search_datasets tool queries Dryad. An agent connected to ScholarMuse can use Dryad without a separate server.

No. The Dryad API can be called without a key, and ScholarMuse does not ask you for one. You sign in to ScholarMuse once and your agent calls the tool.

The connector calls datadryad.org/api/v2/search with the keyword query and no API key. Responses are cached for up to 6 hours, so a dataset published at Dryad in the last few hours may not appear yet.

CC0-1.0. Attribution: Data from Dryad (datadryad.org), CC0. Records that come from Dryad carry this licence and attribution.

Yes. Each successful call to search_datasets uses credits, and a call that fails is not charged. Current price: Find datasets, 1 credit / call.