SWISSUbase: data and project finder in Switzerland

SWISSUbase is a national platform for the publication of research data and provides an online public catalogue for discovering datasets and projects from Swiss higher education institutions. It offers discipline-specific metadata schemas for the Social Sciences and Linguistics, with one for the Humanities forthcoming, in addition to a discipline-agnostic metadata schema. Reflecting the current needs of its consortium partners, SWISSUbase functions both as a thematic repository in a national context and as a generic repository in an institutional context. To support a range of access requirements, datasets are published under a Creative Commons licence or with closed access.

• Improve the discoverability of metadata and the transparency of access conditions for datasets with restricted access
• Facilitate the reuse of datasets by providing clear information on appropriate tools and services for working with the data

• Datasets with restricted access are discoverable via the Metadata Warehouse, where access conditions and workflows for obtaining access are made transparent
• Datasets are matched with appropriate tools to support replication or further analysis