Scholars Portal

• This is a secure environment that conforms to industry best practices for maintaining data integrity and longevity.
• Data owners can retain complete control over who can access their data. Specific datasets can be made freely available, available only on request, or restricted to only certain IPs, to an individual account(s) or to specific groups.
• Borealis is widely used by academic institutions in Canada and the U.S. and datasets are indexed and searchable across institutions.
• Borealis is most suited for datasets up to 2GB.

Offers search, preview, and download functionality for a growing selection of geospatial datasets covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, points of interest (such as schools, airports, and golf courses), orthophotography, and more.

For comprehensive data resources visit the Academic Data Centre.

<odesi> is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. <odesi> provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. There are both microdata and aggregate data available, in a range of formats.

It includes datasets from Statistics Canada, Gallup Canada and other polling companies, and public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

A libguide is available for help with using odesi.

For comprehensive data resources visit the Academic Data Centre.

A multi-disciplinary resource containing full-text scholarly literature in every academic discipline.

Scholars Portal Journals is a database supported by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) that provides full-text access to over 40 million scholarly articles in every academic discipline. This resource also includes select Open Access (OA) journals.

Almost 70,000 commercial and over 280,000 open access titles. Commercial publishers including Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and the Gibson CRKN and Public Policy collection. In addition, there are 200,000 books from the Internet Archives, which include material digitized by a number of schools as well as a collection of Ontario government documents identified by the Ontario Digitization Initiative.