The Canadian Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) has officially launched into full production! Portage has been working towards this for several years. FRDR is a national solution for storage of big research datasets, and offers the following:
FRDR is designed to address a longstanding gap in Canada's research infrastructure by providing researchers with a robust repository option into which large research datasets can be ingested, curated, processed for preservation, discovered, cited, and shared.
The FRDR Discovery Portal enables discovery of and access to Canadian research data, while FRDR’s repository services will help researchers store and manage their data, preserve their research for future use, and comply with institutional and funding agency data management requirements.
FRDR is made possible through a collaboration between Portage, the Compute Canada Federation and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, with development and infrastructure support from the University of Saskatchewan, Simon Fraser University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about FRDR, please see this page: https://www.alliancecan.ca/en/our-services/research-data-management/federated-research-data-repository.
If you are unsure about a suitable repository for your research data, please contact your subject liaison librarian for assistance and advice; feel free to recommend additional subject-based repositories that you think of for this list.
The following tools may be used to identify a repository for your research data.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
URL: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/home
Focus: Social Sciences
About: Long-Term Preservation; Worldwide Dissemination; User Support; Different Levels of Access Options; Aggregation of Publications. ICPSR is an international consortium of 800+ academic and research organizations; maintains a data archive of more than 400,000 files of research & 120,000 data-related publications in the social sciences.
Data Deposit Process: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/manage-data/deposit
QDR: Qualitative Data Repository
URL: https://qdr.syr.edu/
Focus: Social Sciences
About: The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. QDR provides search tools to facilitate the discovery of data, and also serves as a portal to material beyond its own holdings, with links to U.S. and international archives. The repository’s initial emphasis was on political science.
QDR is funded by the National Science Foundation, and hosted by the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, a unit of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
More Info: https://qdr.syr.edu/about
Lunaris is Canada’s national discovery service for multidisciplinary data from research institutions across the country. Datasets from over 90 academic, government, and research repositories are made discoverable in a bilingual interface that provides keyword and map-based searching.
