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.
OCUL is pleased to announce that the Permafrost hosted digital preservation service is set to become Scholars Portal’s newest subscription-based service.
Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the public beta release of the new Scholars Portal Books platform, now available at https://booksbeta.scholarsportal.info.
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.
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?
Monday, March 5, 11:00am-12:30pm
An Open Education Week event
Take a behind-the-scenes look at how we transform a library book into alternative formats that are accessible to users with print disabilities.
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.
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.
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.