Scholars Portal Toggle navigation Scholars Portal Services Team News Contact fr Scholars Portal Providing shared technology and collections for Ontario university libraries and beyond. Scholars Portal is a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries. Founded in 2002, Scholars Portal provides a shared technology infrastructure and shared collections for all 21 university libraries in the province. Through the Scholars Portal online services, Ontario’s university students, faculty and researchers have access to an extensive collection of e-journals, e-books, social science and geospatial data. Scholars Portal also supports the Canadian Shared Institutional Repository Service, a virtual chat reference service, and other tools designed to aid and enhance academic research in Ontario. Our Services Accessible Content E-Portal Providing access to library books in accessible formats. Ask a Librarian Connecting users with research assistance through chat. Books 900,000+ books from the world’s leading publishers. Borealis Store, share, publish and discover research data. GeoPortal Discover, use, annotate, and share geospatial datasets. Journals 68 million+ articles from over 27 thousand full-text journals. Odesi A web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool. OLRC Secure and affordable storage for your digital content. OUR Usage rights for licensed electronic resources. Permafrost Friendly interventions for long-term preservation. Publishing Services Hosting for open access publishing platforms. Scholaris A Canadian shared institutional repository service. TDR A Canadian access and preservation service for digital publications. 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Check out our help documentation or contact us below. I need help with…ACEAsk a LibrarianBooksBorealisGeoPortalJournalsOdesiOLRCOURPermafrostPublishingScholarisOther Accessible Content E-Portal Providing access to library books in accessible formats. The Accessible Content ePortal or ACE is a growing repository of accessible format texts available to users with print disabilities at participating institutions in Ontario. Find out more about ACE. Close Ask a Librarian Connecting users with research assistance through chat. Ask a Librarian is a bilingual virtual reference service that connects students, faculty and researchers from participating libraries with real-time research assistance through chat. Find out more about Ask a Librarian Close Books 900,000+ books from the world’s leading publishers. The Scholars Portal e-book platform is designed to provide a single interface for accessing digital texts from the world’s most important scholarly publishers and public domain books that have been digitized for online reading. Go to Scholars Portal Books. Get help with Scholars Portal Books. Close Borealis Store, share, publish and discover research data. Borealis is a research data management and sharing platform that allows for secure deposit, flexible sharing, and exploration and visualization of research data collected by individuals and organizations associated with affiliated universities. Go to Borealis. Get help with Borealis. Close GeoPortal Discover, use, annotate, and share geospatial datasets. Scholars GeoPortal is an award-winning geospatial data discovery tool, allowing Ontario’s university students and researchers of all disciplines to enrich their teaching and research with a single point of access and retrieval to a curated collection of maps and geospatial datasets. Go to Scholars GeoPortal. Get help with Scholars GeoPortal. Close Journals 68 million+ articles from over 27 thousand full-text journals. Scholars Portal Journals is a repository of over 68 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline. Most hosted journals are subscription-based and are available only to Ontario universities who have negotiated access for them. A small but growing number of journals are open access and available to anyone. Scholars Portal Journals is certified as a Trustworthy Digital Repository for long-term preservation. All commercial content on the platform is negotiated through the OCUL office to ensure long-term hosting and preservation rights. If there is an open access journal you’d like see loaded, hosted, and preserved on the platform, please contact us. Go to Scholars Portal Journals. Get help with Scholars Portal Journals. Close Odesi A web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool. Odesi is a web-based data exploration, and analysis tool. A unique partnership between university libraries, business, and government, Odesi greatly improves access to statistical social survey and polling data for researchers, teachers and students. Go to Odesi. Get help with Odesi. Close OLRC Secure and affordable storage for your digital content. The Ontario Library Research Cloud (OLRC) is a collaboration of Ontario’s university libraries to build a high capacity, geographically distributed storage and compute network using proven and scalable open source cloud technologies. Find out more about the OLRC. Get help with the OLRC. Close OUR Usage rights for licensed electronic resources. The OCUL Usage Rights (OUR) database allows schools to track key usage rights for electronic resources, and to display those rights to users. Get help with OUR. Close Permafrost Friendly interventions for long-term preservation. Academic libraries and archives across Ontario are the custodians of a remarkable variety of unique materials that represent the collective memory of their institutions and communities. Increasingly, these materials exist in digital form: either acquired through purchase or donation, or created by the institution itself as university records or as the output of digitization projects. All of these heterogeneous digital objects require robust tools, systems and infrastructure for long-term preservation to ensure they remain accessible into the future. Permafrost provisions a suite of tools, training and resources to enable members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries to begin actively processing digital objects for long-term preservation and access. Find out more about Permafrost. Close Publishing Services Hosting for open access publishing platforms. Scholars Portal hosts Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph Press for 12 institutions across Ontario, with over 150 active journals containing more than 45,000 published articles. Our services include software hosting, troubleshooting, upgrades, and Crossref sponsorship for DOI minting. Close Scholaris A Canadian shared institutional repository service. Scholaris provides scalable infrastructure, technical expertise and community support for institutional repositories. The service uses open-source repository software (DSpace) and is hosted and managed by Scholars Portal. Participating institutions enjoy the benefits of both local and national service models: an institutionally branded repository instance with centrally managed hosting and upgrades, shared resources, and access to a vibrant national repository network. Learn more about Scholaris Close TDR A Canadian access and preservation service for digital publications. Scholars Portal preserves and gives access to licensed digital content on behalf of our members. Our platforms make content available to licensed users while ensuring that it is properly preserved for the long term. In 2013, the Scholars Portal Journals Service was certified as a Trustworthy Digital Repository by the Center for Research Libraries. As a key contributor to the global preservation community, we make all of our documentation openly available and contribute our holdings records to the Keepers Registry. Our members value our services as their core preservation strategy. Find out more about the Scholars Portal TDR. Close