Borealis

Compliance & Ethics Computing & Cloud Storage Research Dissemination

Data Discoverability, Data Findability, Data Preservation, Data Sharing, Data Storage, Datasets, FIPPA Compliant Storage, Large Datasets, Metadata Disclosure, Open Data, and Secure Data Storage

Description

Borealis is a free research data repository for faculty, students and staff. The platform makes it possible for researchers to deposit data, create appropriate metadata, obtain DOIs for permanent links, and maintain version control of their datasets.

Who can use it

Employees, Faculty, Students

Support

Contact

Click here to contact Marjorie Mitchell (On leave 2023)
Click here to contact Mathew Vis-Dunbar (Acting 2023)
*Primarily supported by UBC Vancouver

Self service links and Resources

Click here to learn more about Borealis

Guided service links and Resources

None

Features

Contains a strong level of permissions control but can be made findable by Google; Can generate data citations; Version control; Canadian storage; Interlinks across other DataVerses

Associated Costs

None

Alternatives

Federated research data repository (FRDR); Dryad; Zenodo; Open Science Framework (OSF)

Resource-Service Feeback Section

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Last updated: 2023-11-01 01:18

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