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Webinar: Back to School with Scholars Portal, September 5th
Thursday, September 5th, 2PM  
 
Join staff from Scholars Portal in this one-hour webinar to learn what’s new and what’s upcoming with Scholars Portal services, including previews of the Dataverse Data Curation Tool, Accessible Content ePortal staff portal, and upgrades to the Scholars Portal Journals interface. 
Brief Scholars Portal Service Outage: August 23, 8am
Brief Scholars Portal Service Outage August 23
 
Due to planned maintenance of University of Toronto server networks, all Scholars Portal services will be temporarily unavailable for about 10 minutes beginning at 8:00 am on Friday, August 23.
 
The OCUL website and SPOTdocs wiki will also be unavailable during this time.
 
OCUL/COPPUL Digital Preservation Management Workshop in Toronto, November 2019 - Registration Now Open
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Toronto edition of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop series. The workshop will be held November 12-15, 2019, at Ryerson University.
 
OCUL Accessibility Community Virtual Huddle: Inclusive Spaces & Technology Labs in Libraries
Wednesday, July 24, @ 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

The OCUL Accessibility Community invites you to join our next Virtual Huddle, on the topic of Inclusive Spaces & Technology Labs in Libraries.
Scholars Portal Launches Dataverse Blog
In fall 2018, OCUL’s Scholars Portal service and the University of Toronto Libraries received funding from the CANARIE RDM grant program for the development project “Dataverse for the Canadian Research Community.” The aim of the project, which is also supported by CARL and Portage, is to enhance Dataverse to address the needs of a broad range of researchers in Canada through improved scalability, integration with Canadia
2019 Scholars Portal Annual Report Now Available

Scholars Portal’s 2019 Report to the OCUL Directors is now available.

New Feature on Scholars Portal Journals: Linked Book Reviews

We are excited to announce a new feature linking Scholars Portal’s Journals and Books platforms. Over 17,000 book review articles on the Scholars Portal Journals platform now link directly to the title being reviewed on Scholars Portal Books. 

Employment 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.

Agreement Between BCI and the University of Toronto to Extend OCUL’S Research Data Repository Service to Quebec Researchers

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Montreal and Toronto, 23 April 2019 – BCI and the University of Toronto are proud to announce the signing of an agreement allowing researchers from Quebec universities to deposit the datasets generated by their research to OCUL’s Scholars Portal Dataverse platform.

 

OCUL/COPPUL Digital Preservation Management Workshop in Toronto, 2019 - Call for Expressions of Interest


The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) intends to host a Toronto edition of the popular Digital Preservation Management Workshop series from November 12-15, 2019 at Ryerson University. We are seeking expressions of interest from OCUL and COPPUL members to ensure we can make the workshop feasible. Please communicate your interest in attending this workshop by Friday, May 17 by filling out this short form.

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