News & Events
New Scholars Portal Books Platform Now Live
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the full release of the Scholars Portal Books platform, now live at https://books.scholarsportal.info. All users who accessed the legacy platform now have access to their complete holdings on the new site, including ACE collections and those available to users outside Ontario.
07/03/2018 - 16:41New Collection: D-Day, Other Second World War Maps Available on GeoPortal
Scholars Portal and members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Geo Community are pleased to announce the release of a collection of Second World War military maps via Scholars GeoPortal, a shared geospatial data repository.
06/06/2018 - 11:20Scholars Portal Annual Report Released
Over the past year Scholars Portal has been busy building new services and renewing platforms, supporting research, teaching and learning activities and fostering partnerships with OCUL member libraries and colleagues around Canada. These activities are outlined in the latest Scholars Portal Annual Report, now available on the OCUL website.
06/04/2018 - 10:11Scholars Portal Services Unavailable Canada Day
Scholars Portal Services Unavailable Canada Day
Due to an upcoming planned power shutdown at the University of Toronto, ALL Scholars Portal services will be temporarily unavailable from Saturday, June 30th at 5pm until Sunday, July 1st at 5pm.
Webinar: OCUL Communities Lightning Talks on Collaboration
June 5th from 11am-12pm
Join colleagues across the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) for a webinar tour of our communities of practice. Get some insight into the work they have been doing over the past year, and the conversations they have been contributing to across Ontario and beyond.
Permafrost Digital Preservation Service: Call for Subscribers
OCUL is pleased to announce that the Permafrost hosted digital preservation service is set to become Scholars Portal’s newest subscription-based service.
05/17/2018 - 15:16New Scholars Portal Books platform now live!
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the public beta release of the new Scholars Portal Books platform, now available at https://booksbeta.scholarsportal.info.
05/14/2018 - 17:10New Open Access Resource: PsycCRITIQUES Archive
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce that the archive of PsycCRITIQUES is now fully available as an Open Access resource on the Scholars Portal Journals platform.
04/30/2018 - 14:33Employment Opportunity: Virtual Reference Operator (Part-Time, Remote)
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is seeking library or information studies students (MLIS/MI) and recent graduates interested in providing academic reference assistance through our virtual reference service, Ask a Librarian / Clavardez avec nos bibliothécaires.
04/26/2018 - 15:53Webinar: Supporting access to government documents for Ontario’s universities
April 5th from 1pm-2pm
Hosted by the OCUL Government Information Community
Do you want to know more about how Ontario’s university libraries are supporting the preservation of and access to government information?
OCUL Webinar: Voices of OER
Monday, March 5, 11:00am-12:30pm
An Open Education Week event
Making library books accessible
Take a behind-the-scenes look at how we transform a library book into alternative formats that are accessible to users with print disabilities.
01/10/2018 - 14:53OCUL OER White Paper published
In response to increasing membership interest in Open Educational Resources (OER) and the role of libraries in this endeavour, OCUL recently undertook an environmental scan and analysis of current activities in open education publishing. This initiative has resulted in the publication of an Open Educational Resources White Paper.
12/14/2017 - 16:08Collaborative Futures RFP issued
On behalf of OCUL, the University of Ottawa has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the Collaborative Futures project. The project has as its aim the procurement and implementation of a Software as a Service (SaaS) Library Services Platform (LSP) for participating OCUL members. At present, 13 of OCUL’s 21 members have agreed to move forward with migration to a shared LSP.
12/14/2017 - 08:31Queen’s University Library, Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), and Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) partnering to make CORA polling data freely available to all
Queen’s University Library in collaboration with the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is making CORA polling data freely available to the public via the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ <odesi>, Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure data portal, a component of OCUL’s Scholars Portal suite of data resources and tools, as of December 1, 2017.
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