Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
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| Country | Canada |
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| Type | National Science Library |
| Established | 1917 as library of the National Research Council of Canada; 1967 as National Science Library |
| Location | 1200 Montreal Road, NRC Campus, building M-55 |
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| Items collected | books, journals, technical reports, databases, in the areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine. |
| Size | 50,000 serial titles, 800,000 books, over 2 million technical reports (microfiche). |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | (Library) (Archival) |
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| Director | Kathleen O'Connell |
| Website | NRC National Science Library (NRC NSL) |
The National Science Library (NSL), formerly known as the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information or CISTI, began in 1917 as the library of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). NRC is the Government of Canada’s premier research and technology organization (RTO), working with clients and partners to provide innovation support, strategic research, scientific and technical services. The library took on the role of national science library unofficially in 1957 and became the official National Science Library in 1966.
The National Science Library is located in Ottawa, Ontario, and houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of publications in science, technology, engineering and medicine. It is part of NRC’s Knowledge Management Branch and provides NRC and Canada’s research community with information and information services to accelerate discovery, innovation and commercialization.
The NRC Research Press joined the Library in 1992. On September 1, 2010, NRC Research Press became a private company called Canadian Science Publishing and is no longer directly affiliated with CISTI or the NRC.
Shared library services - The NSL works with other Government of Canada science-based departments on a number of collaborative initiatives to realize common goals and improve library and knowledge service delivery. The Library currently provides services to four federal departments/agencies, including licensing and acquisitions, cataloguing, reference, library website and document delivery. It also provides all technical library support services to Health Canada as part of a partnership that began in 2010.
Federal Science Library (FSL) – A partnership of seven Government of Canada science departments/agencies implementing a common platform and processes to deliver information discovery and access services to clients. A three-year FSL implementation project was launched in October 2014, with the NSL serving as the project’s technical lead.
PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) - A free online archive of published, peer-reviewed health and life sciences research established in 2009 by the NRC’s National Science Library, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the United States National Library of Medicine.
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