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).
• 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 new shared institutional repository service built on DSpace and maintained by Scholars Portal.
• Vault is a digital preservation storage service offered by the Internet Archive that allows users to store, manage, and access data for a one-time fee.

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).