Portal Services

OurOntario.ca delivers one search access to digital collections of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, galleries, and other content providers.

We offer discovery services for diverse contributors from across the province – getting users to connect to digital content about and from Ontario. Through OurOntario.ca, a unique next-generation search portal, users can discover, navigate and interact with a range of digital resources, including text, audio, image, video and other media.

OurOntario.ca Portal

The OurOntario.ca website gets you access to hundreds of thousands of digital objects in one easy search, with search results providing a quick link to the digital collections. One search to find the content, and one click to access the website where the digital content resides. The OurOntario.ca portal is designed to drive traffic to the local sites of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and other organizations which host the digital collections.  Participating as a partner in OurOntario.ca portal guarantees higher ranking in other search engine environments, making your content more discoverable – ensuring many ways for users to find the digital content they are looking for. Check out the OurOntario.ca Portal Features page

Share your content with others!

As a discovery service for libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, heritage and community groups, government agencies, art galleries, etc., OurOntario.ca leads users to your digital content. Search thousands of digital resources available from a range of diverse cultural organizations - in one search! Search results link to the website (yours) where users can access the digital collections.

OurOntario.ca is a collaborative project – in essence the portal is the sum of its partners. We continue to build partnerships with various organizations having cultural heritage and community content, including libraries (public, academic, government), archives, museums, historical societies, newspaper publishers, etc...Browse the current contributor list.

Tell us about your content and we’ll let the world know.

Participating in OurOntario.ca is a unique opportunity to globally market your collections and increase online discovery of local content. Become a partner today: Contact us!

Learn more about how it works: Behind the scenes at Our Ontario