Ontario University Library Consortia Activity Gwendolyn Ebbett Dean of the Library University of Windsor

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Ontario University Library Consortia
ActivityGwendolyn EbbettDean of the
LibraryUniversity of Windsor

• presented at
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Library30
  September 2013

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Ontario Council of University Libraries who we
are and what we do

• Commitment to work together to maximize a
  collective expertise and resources
• Enhance information services in Ontario and
  beyond through
• collective purchasing and shared digital
  information infrastructure
• collaborative planning
• advocacy
• assessment
• research
• partnerships
• communications, and
• professional development

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Ontario Council of University Libraries who we
are and what we do

• Established record of leadership in shared
  development
• Providing information tools and access essential
  for high quality education and research

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Ontario Council of University Libraries who we
are and what we do

• 2-3 general membership meetings each year.
• Executive Committee
• 3 Standing Committees
• OCUL Information Resources (OCUL-IR) Committee
• OCUL Planning and Assessment (OCUL-PA) Committee
• OCUL Scholars Portal (OCUL-SP) Committee

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Strategic Directions and Goals

• Collaborate to provide a world-class learning
  experience for Ontarios students
• Expand shared digital research infrastructure
• Provide and preserve academic resources essential
  for teaching, learning and research

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• Founded in 2002 with two projects
• Portal for e-journal content
• Shared interlibrary loan system (RACER)

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• Today
• Digital collections (journals, books, statistical
  survey data, geospatial data)
• 34,320,452 articles from over 14,084 full text
  journals covering every academic discipline.
• Almost 142,000 commercial and over 359,000 open
  access titles.

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• Today
• Research and member services (ILL, open URL
  linking, citation management, virtual reference,
  evaluation assessment)

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Ask a LibrarianOCULs consortial chat reference
service

• 13 member libraries

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Consortial Assessment and Evaluation

• MINES for Libraries
• MINES Measuring the Impact of Networked
  Electronic Resources
• A survey of e-resource use
• Data on
• Frequency of use by faculty affiliation
• Frequency by purpose of use (coursework, patient
  care, teaching, funded/non-funded research)
• Reason for use (cited in another source, course
  reading list, recommended by professor/librarian)
• User status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty)
  and location of use (on campus, off-campus, in
  library)

• SCOT Scholars Portal Overlap Tool
• Tool for identifying coverage and overlap in
  electronic resources (databases and journal
  packages)
• Can be used to compare up to 3 databases or
  sets.

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• Today
• Preservation activities (TDR, IPY-DACN)

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• Today
• New/emerging services and projects (data
  management, ACE repository and accessibility
  toolkit)

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ODESI

• Content
• Social science data from Statistics Canada,
  Gallup Canada, other opinion polls
• Metadata compliant with Data Documentation
  Initiative metadata standard
• Functionality
• Search, visualize, and download
• Support
• Scholars Portal supports the technical
  infrastructure
• Close collaboration with Ontario data librarians
  who provide research support for data

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Dataverse

• Content
• Research data from individuals and organizations
  associated with Ontario universities
• Metadata compliant with Data Documentation
  Initiative metadata standard
• Functionality
• User can upload and control access to their
  research data
• Visualization options, and download in multiple
  formats
• Support
• Application support by Scholars Portal
• Collaboration with interested parties and users
  of the service

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Scholars GeoPortal

• Content
• Geospatial data from Statistics Canada, Ontario
  provincial government, commercial providers
• Metadata compliant with North American Profile of
  ISO 19115 standard
• Functionality
• Search, visualize, and download
• Support
• Scholars Portal supports the technical
  infrastructure
• Close collaboration with Ontario data librarians
  who provide research support for data

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Ontario Digital Library Research Cloud (ODLRC)

• A collaboration of Ontarios university libraries
  to build a high capacity, geographically
  distributed storage and compute network using
  proven and scalable open source cloud
  technologies.  
• Designed to house large volumes of scholarly
  digital resources to
• allow for cost effective and sustainable
  long-term preservation and
• support data and text mining using innovative
  research tools designed in partnership
  with researchers across the province. 
• Partners University of Toronto (lead), Carleton
  University, University of Guelph, McMaster
  University, University of Ottawa, Queens
  University, University of Waterloo, University of
  Windsor, Wilfrid Laurier University and York
  University.

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Partnerships External Relations

• OCUL seeks to be a leader in the development of
  partnerships to expand Canadas digital research
  infrastructure and stimulate global
  collaboration.
• Partnerships
• Canadian Government Information (CGI) Private
  LOCKSS Network
• Canadian Polar Data Network (CPDN)
• Internet Archive
• The Keepers Registry
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Major Development
  Partnership

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• Benefits to joining IATUL
• Provides an international voice
• Provides partnerships on common issues,
  challenges and opportunities
• Provides a forum to share research by Canadian
  librarians
• Provides opportunities to participate in exchanges

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Websites

• Ontario Council of University Libraries
  www.ocul.on.ca
• Scholars Portal
• http//www.ocul.on.ca/spstaff

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• Gwendolyn Ebbett
• Dean of the Library
• University of Windsor
• Gwendolyn.Ebbett_at_uwindsor.ca
• 1 [phone] ext. 3161
• Website http//leddy.uwindsor.ca/