A talk given at 'Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving', a conference hosted by EDINA and ISSN IC at the University of Edinburgh, September 7th 2015.

1. Scholars Portal: What’s Now,
What’s Next
Steve Marks
Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries

2. 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

3. What do libraries have
to do with clouds?

4. 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

5. 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?

6. What’s Next?
• Ontario Library Research Cloud (OLRC)
• Collaborative Futures (shared ILS)

7. Thank you!
 OCUL – http://www.ocul.on.ca
 Scholars Portal – http://www.scholarsportal.info
 steve.marks@utoronto.ca