Scholars Portal

Scholars Portal (http://scholarsportal.info) was created in 2002, as a repository for digital content licensed, purchased, and otherwise acquired by the 21 Canadian libraries represented by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) consortium. Scholars Portal provides a common technical infrastructure for delivering digital content and services to support research, teaching, and learning within the Ontario higher education community. Scholars Portal was initially created as a local hosting solution for licensed content. It has since evolved to include digital preservation, archiving and repository services.

The Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) (www.crl.edu) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL supports advanced research and learning in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by ensuring the survival and accessibility of source materials vital to those disciplines. In order to enable its community to accelerate the shift to electronic-only resources in a careful and responsible manner, CRL both preserves and maintains shared physical collections of materials and evaluates digital repositories of interest to its community.

 The members of the CRL Certification Advisory Panel for the Scholars Portal audit were: