Digital Stewardship Resources and Services

Resources

As of 2025, COPPUL is an Associate Member of the Digital Preservation Coalition. The DPC is an international organization dedicated to supporting sustainable long-term access to digital materials by promoting good practice, community involvement, and advocacy.

The DPC provides a host of freely accessible resources on digital stewardship including guides, toolkits, case studies, assessment models, online courses, and events. To access these free resources and learn more about the DPC, please see their website.

Services

COPPUL offers the following opt-in services to members and select partners at additional cost. These support sustainable stewardship of digital collections throughout their life cycle.

  • Arca is a hosted, Islandora-based repository platform made available to COPPUL members through partnership with the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN). Integration with WestVault allows users of both services to quickly and easily flag content for deposit to preservation storage in the Arca collection manager interface.
  • Archive-It is a web archiving service provided by the Internet Archive. With Consortia Canada, COPPUL coordinates annual Archive-It subscriptions for Canada's University Libraries.
  • Borealis is a repository designed to support stewardship of research data. This hosted version is made available in partnership with University of Toronto Libraries and Scholars Portal, who operate Borealis as a national service in collaboration with regional academic library consortia.
  • Scholaris is a shared institutional repository service built on DSpace and maintained by Scholars Portal. This service is currently available to participants via an Early Adopter model, with Cohorts 1 and 2 beginning migration to the platform in 2024. More information on the Early Adopter Program and how to apply to participate in Cohort 3 can be found on the Scholaris SpotDocs wiki.

For more information about these services, including participation options and pricing, please see the above links or contact Y.G. Rancourt, CDSN Coordinator (cdsn@coppul.ca).