Scholars Portal: What’s Now,

What’s Next

Steve Marks

Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries

What is Scholars Portal Shared technology service of the 21 university libraries of

the Ontario Council of University Libraries founded in 2003

Provides content aggregation and preservation services for member libraries

Journals – ~18,000 and 43 M articles

Books – 650,000 ebooks

GeoPortal – GIS Data

ODESI – Numeric Data

Dataverse – Research Data

What do libraries have

to do with clouds?

A Brief (and Woefully

Incomplete)Timeline

2002 – Scholars Portal founded

2010 – Work around TDR certification begins

2012 – Certification awarded

2013 – Accessibility work

2015 – Major platform redevelopment begins

What’s Next?

Keep loading content!

Integrate other content types

Ebooks

Research data

Extend service to other Canadian schools?

Recertification????????

Working with other Keepers

Identify gaps / lack of coverage

Chase the “long tail” – especially Canadian content

What does negotiation look like?

What’s Next?

• Ontario Library Research Cloud (OLRC)

• Collaborative Futures (shared ILS)

Thank you! OCUL – http://www.ocul.on.ca

Scholars Portal – http://www.scholarsportal.info

steve.marks@utoronto.ca