The National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has announced that it is implementing its 'collect and connect strategy'.
For journals, this strategy focuses on collecting electronic-only versions 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 part of the transition, NRC-CISTI will continue to deliver from its print collection and play an enabling role in helping clients access electronic content.
The move is the result of dropping demand for NRC-CISTI's print collection because of wider access to the electronic version from publishers, repositories as well as from open access sources. Also, it is noticed that 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 the Council holds in the areas of science, technology and medicine. More print journal titles is expected be cancelled in the coming two years, until the transition from print to electronic is completed. However, going forward, NRC-CISTI 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.
NRC-CISTI will continue to provide the same level of access to its 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 NRC-CISTI's Extended service.
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