From the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL):
…Scholars Portal is now the first certified Trustworthy Digital Repository in Canada. OCUL, which has been acquiring and managing digital content since 2002, is committed to the long-term preservation of scholarly resources for the benefit of future students and researchers.
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This certification, the only generally recognized certification for digital archives, was issued by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) following an audit of the Scholars Portal Journals repository conducted between January and July 2012. The CRL audit measured the compliance of Scholars Portal with internationally established criteria for trusted digital repositories, including the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist1 (TRAC). The final audit report is now available on the CRL website.
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See Also: OCUL’s digital preservation mandate
See Also: Scholars Portal policies and plans describing its preservation mandate and workflows
See Also: Scholars Portal’s responses to the individual ISO 16363 audit criteria