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On March 1, 2012, OCUL launched its newest service, [Scholars GeoPortal|http://geo.scholarsportal.info]. We encourage all Ontario university students, staff and faculty to explore the site and use our online tools to discover the fascinating geospatial data on offer.

h3. [http://geo.scholarsportal.info|http://geo.scholarsportal.info]

h3. Background

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has launched a new  geospatial and health informatics storage and data discovery tool that,  along with the social science data delivery system [<odesi>|http://odesi.ca] , provides a portal to Ontario researchers to access numeric and  spatial datasets.&nbsp; The new service was made possible with support from  the Government of Ontario through the OntarioBuys initiative.


h3. Explore this wiki:


[About Scholars GeoPortal|scholarsgeoportal:About]

[Latest Release Notes|Releases]

[Data in Scholars GeoPortal|scholarsgeoportal:data]




[Documents|scholarsgeoportal:Documents]

[Help |scholarsgeoportal:Help]

[Teaching and Learning Resources |T&L]


[OCUL Members Space|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/geo/Geospatial+and+Health+Data+Portal] (requires login)

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*What's New?*

[Scholars GeoPortal Officially Launched\!|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=111771773] March 1, 2012


[Scholars GeoPortal Recognized by the OLA|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=110034973] Jan 23, 2012


[OPHID project launched|wiki^OPHID_announcement.docx] October 7, 2011

[Scholars GeoPortal Beta now available\!|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/sp/2011/08/25/Scholars+GeoPortal+Beta+now+online] August 25, 2011

[Press Release|wiki^2009-07-03 OCUL Geospatial Data andHealth Informatics announcement.pdf] July 3, 2009

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Updates

of

Interest

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The

ArcGIS

Online

Ocean

Basemap

was

recently

updated

with

Canadian

bathymetry

data.

This

basemap

is

available

in

[

Scholars

GeoPortal

|http://geo.scholarsportal.info]

(click

Basemap

to

switch

to

the

ESRI

Oceans

basemap).

[

More

info|http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/05/11/arcgis-online-ocean-basemap-updated-with-canadian-bathymetry-and-additional-scales/] The ArcGIS Online World Imagery Basemap was recently updated with expanded coverage of 1m resolution GeoEye IKONOS imagery for parts of Canada. This basemap is available in [Scholars GeoPortal|http://geo.scholarsportal.info] (click Basemap to switch to the ESRI Imagery basemap). [More info|http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/06/08/high-resolution-imagery-for-canada-mexico-and-pakistan-added-to-arcgis-online-world-imagery-map/] {panel}

info

The ArcGIS Online World Imagery Basemap was recently updated with expanded coverage of 1m resolution GeoEye IKONOS imagery for parts of Canada. This basemap is available in Scholars GeoPortal (click Basemap to switch to the ESRI Imagery basemap). More info