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NRC-CISTI collect and connect strategy transition
Dear valued colleague and client,
The National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is implementing its collect and
connect strategy. For journals, this strategy focuses on collecting
electronic-only and connecting clients to publisher sites and other
sources of content. This is part of the transition from print delivery
to knowledge discovery of the electronic information that will be taking
place over the next two years as we cancel print journal titles and
clients move to new ways of accessing the content they need. As part of
this transition, we will continue to deliver from our print collection
and play an enabling role in helping clients access electronic content.
Reasons for making this change to an electronic-only collection
are:
* Demand for NRC-CISTI's print collection is dropping
precipitously because of wider access to the electronic version from
publishers, repositories as well as from Open Access sources
* Users have shown a preference for immediate access to
electronic content
Effective January 2009, print journal subscriptions have been
cancelled for publishers Elsevier, Springer and Taylor & Francis. This
represents about one third of the current journal titles we hold in the
areas of science, technology and medicine. More print journal titles
will be cancelled in the coming two years, until the transition from
print to electronic is completed. However, going forward, we will
continue to license the electronic versions of these titles. The
NRC-CISTI collection policy is currently being revised to reflect this
and will be available in spring 2009.
We understand that this will have an impact on what information
you are able to obtain from NRC-CISTI and therefore we will play a
facilitating role in providing options to connect you to the information
you need. We will continue to provide the same level of access to our
existing print collection, with no change to current ordering
procedures. Moving ahead, articles from Elsevier, Springer and Taylor &
Francis journals published after December 31, 2008, can be ordered using
our Extended service.
Should you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please
contact us by phone or email at 613-998-8544 or 1-800-668-1222 and
info.cisti_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
You can also subscribe to receive regular updates at
http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/media/alert_general_e.html.
Sincerely,
Pam Bjornson
Director General
NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
www.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
<http://www.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/>
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