Happy holidays from your colleagues at OCUL and Scholars Portal!

The OCUL and Scholars Portal offices will close for the holiday period on the afternoon of Friday, December 20, 2019 and reopen the morning of Monday, January 6, 2020.

In the meantime, we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season and the very best for 2020.

OCUL is delighted to announce that the Omni academic search tool is in the process of going live at 14 university libraries in Ontario.
 

OCUL is moving closer to the implementation of Omni, our new consortial instance of Ex Libris’s Alma/PrimoVE library services platform. Ex Libris has confirmed that data from our 14 participating libraries migrated successfully; however they are experiencing a delay in processing the data and making it available to member libraries for verification.

Tuesday, December 3 @ 11am
 
The OCUL Accessibility Community invites you to join our next Virtual Huddle, on the topic of Institutional Repositories.
 

The Accessible Content ePortal (ACE) is a consortial service supported by Scholars Portal and made available collaboratively across Ontario university and college libraries. Curated by students and researchers with print disabilities for research and study purposes, this collection just exceeded 17,000 titles. Growing in response to user demand, this collection has evolved as a unique repository of accessible academic resources.
 

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November 5, 2019

Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the upgrade of our research data repository Dataverse (http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info) to version 4.17.  With this upgrade, we are also launching the Data Curation Tool developed at Scholars Portal.

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Introducing Omni :
A New Academic Search Tool from 14 Ontario University Libraries
 
October 30, 2019
[For immediate release]
 
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Omni, an academic search tool that connects the libraries of 14 of Ontario’s universities. Omni goes live on December 10th, 2019.
 

Wednesday, October 16 @ 11am

The OCUL Accessibility Community invites you to join our next Virtual Huddle, on the topic of Library eResources Accessibility Project (LEAP).

The Accessible Content ePortal (ACE) service team is very happy to announce the launch of a new staff portal and public-facing website.
 

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.