Thanks to funding received from the CIC, Ontario Administration for Settlement and Integration Services (OASIS), we have completed an Online Content Enhancement Project (OCEP) to promote access to vital historical immigration research documents.

In collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS),York University and CIC, OASIS, CERIS has digitalized and posted a large selection of historical immigration research documents. The documents from the library collections of the three centres, have been selected based on their historical and contemporary significance, as well as their limited circulation.

Also as part of the OCEP Project, CERIS has developed a prototype for a search mechanism called the CERIS Resourcefinder. This is a method for accessing information about immigration and settlement through a standard indexing system. It will allow users to easily search online for available CERIS Resources, and will facilitate common access to the online resources for the Centre for Refugee Studies’ Andrew Forbes Refugee Resource Centre Bibliographic Database, Settlement.org, and other future partners.

CERIS wishes to thank all the authors and organizations that supported this project by contributing documents for posting. Public access to the new CERIS Resourcefinder and full digital version of the selected historical documents for downloading is now available from our Website.