Scholars Portal

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Scholars Portal

• Leslie Weir
• University Librarian

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University of Ottawa

• North Americas premier bilingual university
• Students study in their choice of English or
  French
• 34,000 students from more than 150 countries
• More than 300 programs in 10 faculties including
  Law and Medicine

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University of Ottawa as part of the Scholars
Portal

• Province-wide infrastructure to provide
  state-of-the-art access to e-resources
• Developed with provincial grant of 7.8 million
• All 20 Ontario Universities
• University of Toronto member and service
  provider

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Scholars Portal is

• a collection of content and a set of integrated
  services to allow researchers to BROWSE, SEARCH,
  SAVE and REQUEST scholarly articles in a uniform
  way, regardless of the publisher or the source of
  the resource

browse search save request
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Applications

• ? Science Server
• ? RACER / VDX
• ? RefWorks
• ? SFX / Get It!
• ? Scholars Portal Search

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Integration

• using standards- based linking, the services of
  the portal are integrated to support the workflow
  of researchers

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Integration

• resources available through the portal are
  closely integrated with resources and services of
  external providers

External A I Databases
External Full-Text Resources
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all resources and services are managed centrally
but are presented to researchers as integrated
components of each librarys own portal
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Search

• Search dozens of the best bibliographic databases
  simultaneously

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Search

• Results from all databases are presented as a
  single list with duplicates removed

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Browse

• Browse 7,300 scholarly journals from 20 publishers

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Browse

• Browse articles cited by and citing the current
  article

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Locate

• Connect to full-text versions of 8.7M articles in
  the Scholars Portal collection

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Locate

• Or connect to full-text articles from more than
  400 scholarly publishers

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Save

• Mark records and save them to personal folders in
  RefWorks

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Organize

• Organize your citations into project folders

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Share

• Share folders with colleagues, a class, or the
  world

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Cite

• Create bibliographies and inline citations using
  one of hundreds of citation styles

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Reason for Use
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Questions?

• Leslie Weir
• University Librarian