Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository

Compliance & Ethics Computing & Cloud Storage Research Dissemination

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

Description

UBC Dataverse 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.

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Who can use it

Employees, Faculty, Students

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Support

Contact

Marjorie Mitchell: http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/596

Mathew Vis-Dunbar (Secondary Contact): http://directory.library.ubc.ca/people/view/1150

Primarily supported by UBC Vancouver

Self service links and Resources

https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/ubc

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

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Associated Costs

None

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Alternatives

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

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Related university supported tools/services

• Federated Research Data Repository

  The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) is a place for Canadian researchers to deposit and share research data and to facilitate discovery of research data in Canadian repositories.

• Open Science Framework

  Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their project’s entire lifecycle. OSF functions as both a collaboration tool and a workflow system.