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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]

[Who Created this Awesome Site?|scholarsgeoportal:partnership]


[Latest Release Notes|Releases]

[Data in Scholars GeoPortal|scholarsgeoportal:data]




[Documents|scholarsgeoportal:Documents]

[Help |scholarsgeoportal:Help]

[Teaching and Learning Resources |T&L]

[Scholars GeoPortal Discussion List|scholarsgeoportal:Listserv]



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

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*What's New?*

[U of T local geospatial collection now in Scholars GeoPortal|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/sp/2012/10/31/U+of+T+local+geospatial+collection+now+in+Scholars+GeoPortal] October 31, 2012

[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*

*August 29, 2011.* An update to Scholars GeoPortal has been released. Check out the [release notes|http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/scholarsgeoportal/Releases].


*July 5, 2012.* Three Statistics Canada English Cartographic Boundary files for 2011 (Designated Place, Census Tracts, Dissemination Areas) have been temporarily pulled down from the portal due to work on the metadata record. They should be back up by the end of the week.
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