Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada. Borealis supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data.
The Borealis software is based on the open-source data repository application The Dataverse Project, which is developed by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University, with contributors from around the world. Since the launch of the platform in 2012 (formerly Scholars Portal Dataverse), the Borealis team actively participates in RDM software development to support and respond to the needs of Canadian researchers. As a national infrastructure provider, Borealis has been a member of the Global Dataverse Community Consortium since 2021.