CISTI

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CISTI (M-55) south face. Located on the Montreal Road campus of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa

The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (commonly NRC-CISTI) began in 1924 as the library of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the leading agency for research and development in Canada. This library took on the role of national science library unofficially in 1957 and became the official National Science Library in 1967. The name CISTI came in 1974 to reflect the wide scope of services provided and the increasing role in the development of electronic information products and services for the science and technology community. The NRC Research Press joined with CISTI in 1992, and publishes 16 international journals of research as well as books (monographs) and conference proceedings.

CISTI's headquarters in Ottawa houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of publications in science, technology, engineering and medicine. CISTI branches are co-located with NRC institutes and programmes across Canada. Over 300 staff serve thousands of researchers and libraries by responding to over one million requests for information per year. CISTI is well known as a document delivery service provider, and as Canada's largest publisher of scientific journals.

CISTI can provide documents by Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD)[1], a Digital Rights Management system, similar but not identical to the Secure electronic delivery service provided by the British Library.

In 2008 CISTI launched a web-based interface allowing for the search and retrieval of millions of articles called CISTI Discover.

In 2009 a joint partnership between CIHR, NLM and CISTI will launch PubMed Central Canada.