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)
Filed under: Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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