Dear colleagues,
 
Like many of you, Scholars Portal staff are currently working remotely to continue to support online library services to university communities in Ontario and across Canada. We are up and running and eager to enable you to provide a strong set of online services to your users.
 

Please note, this webinar has been postponed until further notice.


People are curious! How did the Omni implementation go?  Please join us for a webinar if you would like to know more about how the implementation went. Speakers will include:

• John Barnett, Executive Director of OCUL
• Gordon Bertrand, Implementation Manager
• Mandy Deans Kassies, Library Services Platform Coordinator
• Debriefs from the Subcommittee Chairs

 
Who should attend?

Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the addition of unpaywall linking to the Scholars Portal Journals platform.
 
Unpaywall is a service that connects article DOIs to fulltext, Open Access versions of those articles from OA journals as well as pre-print repositories.
 

Friday, February 14th, 10am
 
This fall, the Scholars Portal Dataverse team launched the Data Curation Tool (DCT), which was developed in-house with funding from a CANARIE Research Data Management grant. The DCT aims to enhance data curation workflows within Dataverse, to improve the ability for data reuse, and to support the application of standards and best practices.
 

Wednesday, February 5^th, 11AM
 
You've probably used RACER, Ask a Librarian, Dataverse, or Scholars Portal Journals--but what is Scholars Portal? Who works there, and what do they do? How can you stay informed? Join Scholars Portal staff on Wednesday, February 5th for a one-hour webinar answering these questions, and any others you might have!
 
Who should attend?
This webinar is aimed at staff new to OCUL libraries, but we encourage anyone curious or in need of a refresher to join.

We are excited to announce that Scholars Portal Journals is now live with a new user interface. This update refreshes the look and feel of Scholars Portal’s longest-standing content repository, while maintaining all of the existing functionalities.

With the new interface, Scholars Portal Journals is now visually aligned with the Scholars Portal Books platform.

Scholars Portal Roadshow 2020
We’re bringing the conversation to you!
#SPonTheRoad
 

Monday, January 27, 1pm
 
Join Meghan Goodchild, Research Data Management Systems Librarian at Scholars Portal and Queen’s University, for this one-hour webinar discussing the results of the needs assessment on RDM infrastructure for OCUL libraries. This project investigated the current strengths and gaps of RDM infrastructure at local, regional, and national levels. The aim is to inform service and platform developments that target the needs of OCUL libraries and researchers.
 
Who should attend? 

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.