UWaterloo Scholar How-to documents

As outlined in the email sent to all Scholar site owners on November 24, 2025, UW Scholar will reach its end-of-life on April 30, 2026. After this date, both access to the platform and all site content will no longer be available.

UW Scholar continues to experience platform instability. We strongly recommend saving copies of your site’s content as soon as possible to ensure you retain a backup in the event of a permanent platform failure before the date of decommission.

• On Windows (Chrome/Edge/Firefox browsers), right-click the page > Save as/Save page as to a location for offline viewing 

• On Mac (Safari browser), go to File > Save As and select Format “Web Archive” which will save the full content to your specified location for offline viewing 

Questions or concerns? Contact IST Business Systems Analyst: Traci Dow directly. 

Manage your Scholar site

If you receive an “Access denied” message when trying to view content, such as News or Events, ensure you have the application enabled by following the steps in Manage apps.

Create Scholar site content

Scholar Publications

Import publications

Publications can be imported to your UWaterloo Scholar site. The listed research sites are supported; however, as long as a file can be downloaded in an accepted file format, it should be able to be imported.

Accepted file formats: bibtext, Endnote tagged, Endnote XML, MARC, PubMed ID List and PubMed XML.

Delete publications

There is an option to permanently delete all publications on your Scholar site, allowing you to re-import a new list of publications.

Scholar site embeds