Core Trust Seal certification

The OLOS repository is certified by Core Trust Seal since October 2025 as a trustworthy repository.
‼ New version 3.1 available ‼

Discover the new features in this version.

To learn more and take advantage of all of OLOS's capabilities, check out the FAQ page.
Getting started

If you want to upload research data to OLOS, this series of guides demonstrates the basics of connecting an existing SWITCH account to OLOS, requesting the creation of a new Organizational Unit, adding your team members, and beginning to manage your data on OLOS.

1. Getting started with OLOS: Plan your request

2. Getting started with OLOS: Connect a SWITCH ID

3. Getting started with OLOS: Ask for an Organizational Unit

4. Getting started with OLOS: Add team members and assign roles

5. Getting started with OLOS: Explore OLOS
FAIR Principles

OLOS follows FAIR principles and is eligible for funding for data upload for researchers under a SNSF grant.

Findable

Datasets are assigned unique and persistent identifiers (DOI), are described with rich metadata, and are indexed in a searchable catalogue.

Accessible

Datasets and metadata are retrievable by their identifiers using an open communications protocol, and allow for an authentication when needed. Metadata remain accessible, even when the data is no longer available.

Interoperable

Datasets and metadata are provided in a formal, accessible, shared and broadly applicable language, use open vocabularies that follow FAIR principles, and include qualified references to other metadata.

Reusable

Datasets and metadata are richly described with minimum relevant attributes and optional custom metadata validated against their respective scheme, are released with a clear and accessible data usage license, and are associated with detailed authorship.
FAQ and Support

Not sure how to create your SWITCH edu-ID account? Are you wondering how you can upload large datasets?

Take a look at our FAQ to find the answers to these questions and more.

Still need help? Feel free to contact our support team.
🆕 Register your ORCID to promote your datasets 🆕

It is now possible to reference datasets in your ORCID profile:
🆕 Preview files of an archive 🆕

If the file format is part of the supported format list, like for the deposit, the file content can be viewed:
🆕 Download a subset of an archive 🆕

An archive subset can be selected to create a package to download:
🆕 Share your dataset for peer review prior to archiving 🆕

It now possible to generate a Web link for a deposit to share and download an anonymized dataset, before archiving it.

This functionality makes it possible for people outside the Yareta organizational unit to peer review a data set.

Welcome to Olos

The consultation and archive portal of Switzerland

Core Trust Seal certification