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.
 

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.