Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Launches New Scholars Portal Books Platform

From OCUL:

Scholars Portal is pleased to announce the full release of the Scholars Portal Books platform, now live at https://books.scholarsportal.info.
All users who accessed the legacy platform now have access to their complete holdings on the new site, including ACE collections and those available to users outside Ontario.
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Highlights of the new platform include:

• Smooth HTML page scrolling with a more consistent display across different types of books
• Use of a fully harmonized metadata standard, BITS, which allows for significantly improved browsing and searching across facets
• In-browser concurrent use monitoring, so that use of Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) is no longer required. Users will still have the option to use ADE if they’d like to keep a book beyond one reading session.

See Also: Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Publishes Scholars Portal Annual Report (June 4, 2018)
See Also: Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Publishes Results of Environmental Scan on Open Educational Resources (OER) (December 14, 2017)

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