News & Events
Canadian Library Consortia OCUL and COPPUL Join Forces with Archive-It to Expand Web Archiving in Canada
The Council of Prarie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) have joined forces in a multi-consortial offering of Archive-It, the web archiving service of the Internet Archive. Working together, COPPUL and OCUL are considering ways that they can significantly expand web archiving in Canada.
08/02/2017 - 16:42OCUL Outstanding Contribution Award Call for Nominations
Nominations are now open for the OCUL Outstanding Contribution Award.
07/20/2017 - 14:04Scholars Portal Books Redevelopment - beta release
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the beta release of the new Scholars Portal Books platform. Users are invited to try searching, reading, and downloading on the new platform, and to provide any feedback via our survey: http://bit.ly/spbooksbeta.
06/22/2017 - 11:10CARL and OCUL Work Together to Enhance Canada’s Data Management and Digital Preservation Landscape
May 03 2017 - The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) announced today the signing of an agreement that will see both organizations work together to identify and advance regional and national issues relating to the data discovery, management and digital preservation needs of the Canadian research community.
05/04/2017 - 15:11Ontario’s University Libraries Collaborate to Build a Large-Scale Shared Storage Network
OCUL is pleased to announce that the Ontario Library Research Cloud (OLRC) will open its doors to subscribers as of May 1, 2017.
04/27/2017 - 14:02Lakehead University Library and Scholars Portal collaborate on hosted digital preservation pilot
Scholars Portal and Lakehead University Library are pleased to announce their collaboration on the development of Permafrost, a new preservation service to help protect the unique digital collections held by Ontario’s university libraries and archives.
04/06/2017 - 11:14Ontario University Libraries Collaborate to Release Over 1000 Historical Maps Online
04/04/2017 - 14:00Wilfrid Laurier University makes nationally significant Ipsos polling data freely available to the world
University Archives’ entire collection of Canadian national polling data will be shared via the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ Scholars Portal online platforms
03/10/2017 - 14:47OCUL 1967-2017
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is celebrating 50 years of collaboration in 2017.
Webinar: Digital Preservation In Practice - Preserving Government Information
- Wednesday, March 8, 2PM
Holiday Schedule for OCUL & Scholars Portal
Happy holidays from your colleagues at OCUL and Scholars Portal!
Service Update: Scholars GeoPortal
The GeoPortal team recently completed a significant back-end upgrade, developing a scalable infrastructure to support the growing storage needs for geospatial data across OCUL.
12/13/2016 - 14:14Finding Open Access Content on Scholars Portal Journals
Just in time for Open Access week, users can now easily find Open Access (OA) content on Scholars Portal Journals!
10/25/2016 - 16:16