Members of the repositories community play a vital role in the academic research environment, advancing scholarship and fostering open access to research. In the case of Scholaris, a national shared repository service hosted and managed by Scholars Portal, drawing on local expertise, knowledge sharing and collaboration is essential to its success and to increasing the discoverability and impact of Canadian research excellence. Key to this are the members of three expert groups who, since March 2024, have been developing recommendations in critical areas of the shared repository infrastructure.

To mark OA Week and its theme, “Community over Commercialization,” members of the Scholaris Network of Experts will share for the first time projects undertaken by the Metadata and Discovery Expert Group (S-MDEG) and the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Expert Group (S-ETEG). Whether or not your institution has plans to adopt Scholaris, please join us for this International OA Week webinar to learn more about the community driven work to build and sustain this exciting new endeavour.

Moderated by Gabriela Mircea, CARL Visiting Program Officer, Metadata Strategies and Scholaris/University of Calgary, with Julia Gilmore, Digital Projects Librarian, Scholars Portal.

Speakers:

• Sharon Farnel (S-MDEG; University of Alberta)

• Carolyn Sullivan (S-MDEG; University of Ottawa)

• Caitlin Bakker (S-MDEG; University of Regina)

• Pascal Calarco (S-ETEG; University of Windsor)

This #OAweek webinar is co-organized by CARL and Scholars Portal.

This webinar will be in English with French simultaneous translation and will be recorded.