The NSCAD Library is happy to announce the migration of our current institutional repository to a new institutional repository hosting service called Scholaris.
Scholaris is a Canadian shared institutional repository service using DSpace, hosted and managed by Scholars Portal. Scholaris was developed by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) to advance scholarship and promote open-access research.
Institutional repositories, such as NSCAD Scholar, play an important role in the academic research environment by supporting research access and discovery. A national shared repository service, such as Scholaris, will allow the NSCAD Library to share regional expertise with other academic libraries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to increase the discoverability and impact of our digital collections and the work and research of NSCAD's community.
Scholaris will offer enhanced functionality for our institutional repository, including:
As part of the early adopter’s cohort for Scholaris, we join other Atlantic Canadian Universities (Cape Breton University, Mount Allison University, and Université de Moncton) in this transition.
At this time, you can continue to search our current repository, until the end of December, 2024. The new repository should go live by the end of January 2025. We are not depositng any work until the new system is up and running and the migration is complete.
We will post updates as the migration process proceeds.
If you have any questions, email library@nscad.ca