The '''Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information''' (commonly '''CISTI''') began 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. CISTI's headquarters in Ottawa houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of publications in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine. NRC Research Press is CISTI's publishing arm, with 16 international Journals of Research as well as books (monographs) and conference proceedings. 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)http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/docdel/sdd_e.html, a Digital_Rights_Management system, similar but not identical to the Secure_electronic_delivery_service provided by the British_Library. == Organizational Membership == CISTI is a member of * the Association_of_Research_Libraries (ARL) * the Canadian_Association_of_Research_Libraries (CARL) * the Special_Libraries_Association (SLA) * the Canadian_Library_Association (CLA) * the Canadian_Health_Libraries_Association (CHLA) == External links == *Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) *NRC Research Press *CISTI Strategic Plan 2005-2010 *CISTI News - From Books to Bytes: Pioneers of the Information Highway - June 1999 *National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Category:National_libraries Category:Research_libraries Category:Scientific_institutions Category:Canadian_federal_departments_and_agencies Category:Science_and_technology_in_Canada