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Scholars Portal is the service arm of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). We provide shared technology and digital collections to university libraries in Ontario and beyond.

Also at mstdn.ca/@scholarsportal

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The flexibility of the SP Books platform allows us to locally load & preserve unique content outside of consortial agreements, with support for metadata handling & content transfer.

You can learn more about this collaborative process in our January 2026 newsletter: oculsp.ca/j3yuo

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These 1 million books include titles from university presses, commercial publishers, OA monographs, & government documents. We also host specialized, small press collections outside of consortial agreements that aren’t available through major distributors, on behalf of subscribing member libraries.

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Scholars Portal Books hits 1 million! 🎉 Earlier this month, we surpassed 1 million titles on the Scholars Portal Books platform, an exciting milestone and complement to the over 75 million articles hosted on Scholars Portal Journals.

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The Borealis team is planning to upgrade the Borealis platform to version 6.12. Downtime is expected from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET on October 15 for the demo platform and November 5 for the production platform.

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L'équipe Borealis prévoit la mise à niveau de la plateforme de Borealis vers la version 6.12. Un arrêt de service est prévu de 9 h à 17 h HE le 15 octobre pour la plateforme de démo et le 5 novembre pour la plateforme de production.

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The September Scholars Portal Newsletter is here! Highlights from this edition include:

🔷Updates on GeoPortal, Scholaris, Ask, and Borealis
🔷New journals, books & Odesi datasets
🔷A Spotlight on Ask the Library
🔷Bug fixes & new features

Catch up here: oculsp.ca/2jl0c

Scholars Portal Newsletter
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15 Years, 400,000 Chats, Countless Connections - it's the 15th anniversary of Ask the Library!

Originally launched in September 2011, OCUL & SP's virtual reference service has since grown from 5 to 15 participating schools and expanded to a bilingual service.

Read the full story: oculsp.ca/jjk79

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📢 Join the first webinar in the National PID Strategy series on September 29 at 1:00 p.m. (ET)!

Learn about the strategy’s vision, priorities, and benefits for Canada's research community with Jay Brodeur and CRKN's PID team.

🔗 bit.ly/3Usnx1q