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.
15-657: National Science Library may refer to: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information ( CISTI ), Ottawa, Canada Institut de l'information scientifique et technique , Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France German National Library of Science and Technology , Hanover, Germany National Science Library & Resource Centre National Science Library (Georgia) National Science Digital Library , United States National Science Library (India) National Science Library (Bangladesh) See also [ edit ] List of libraries National library Topics referred to by
30-933: A global registration agency for research data. DataCite was subsequently founded in London on 1 December 2009 by organisations from 6 countries: the British Library ; the Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTIC); the TU Delft Library from the Netherlands; the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI); the California Digital Library (University of California Curation Center - UC3); Purdue University (USA); and
45-502: 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. WorldWideScience Alliance –
60-591: A single place to search and discover the scientific publications of the National Research Council. It contains tens of thousands of freely available scientific articles, technical reports, book chapters and other NRC-authored publications. The National Science Library is a leader and participant in a number of initiatives to support data stewardship and discovery in Canada, including being a founding member of both DataCite and Research Data Canada. In May 2012,
75-621: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages CISTI 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, Information and Technology Services 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
90-647: The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). After the founding of DataCite, leading research libraries and information centres converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris on 5 February 2010. The inclusion of five further members was approved in the office of the International Council for Science (ICSU): Australian National Data Service (ANDS); Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED); GESIS – Leibniz Institute for
105-525: The Library has been a member of this global science search engine since June 2008. DataCite – NRC's National Science Library is a founding member of this worldwide consortium for allocating DOIs to datasets. In December 2013, the NSL implemented a digital repository that holds a number of collections, including the NRC Archives photograph collection of over 12,000 photos dating back to 1916. In June 2011
120-608: The National Science Library and Canadian Agriculture Library collections is provided by Infotrieve Canada Inc. (a Copyright Clearance Center Company) on behalf of NRC. Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) handles all aspects of registration, delivery, billing and customer service for all NRC, Canadian, US and international clients wishing to obtain documents and materials in the NRC National Science Library collection. They are also responsible for onsite access to
135-621: The Social Sciences ; French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST); and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich . The primary means of establishing easier access to research data is by DataCite members assigning persistent identifiers, such as digital object identifiers (DOIs), to data sets. Although currently leveraging the well-established DOI infrastructure, DataCite takes an open approach to identifiers, and considers other systems and services that help forward its objectives. DataCite's recommended format for
150-435: The library collection at NRC's main library. To order documents, users must have a CCC account. NRC NSL is a member of 45°26′38″N 75°37′10″W / 45.44375°N 75.61950°W / 45.44375; -75.61950 DataCite DataCite is an international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation in order to: In August 2009 a paper was published laying out an approach for
165-595: The library implemented a federated search system allowing the public to search its local and licensed resources together - including a combined search of NPArC, and the NSL catalogue and the NRC Research Press . NRC researchers are also able to combine searches with these and other publisher sites and databases that the NSL licenses on their behalf. In June 2009 the library launched the NRC Publications Archive (NPArC), an institutional repository providing
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#1733104641476180-710: 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
195-476: The library launched DataCite Canada, a data registration service that allows Canadian data centres to register research data sets and assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). From the late 1990s until 2010, the library was one of the largest providers of documents in the areas of science technology and medicine in the world. In 2009 the library announced that document delivery services would be provided in partnership with Infotrieve. As of June 2010, access to
210-460: The library launched the CISTI Mobile website which provides location and search services to popular mobile devices including Android, Blackberry and iPhone platforms. The mobile website provides federated searching across several science and technology information sources at and beyond the National Science Library. The site was likely the first Canadian federal library mobile website. In April 2010
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