NRC-CISTI Online Standards Store

• A partnership between Techstreet, a division of Thomson Scientific, and NRC-CISTI.
• Customers can now access an online database of over 300,000 industry codes and standards aggregated from 350 of the world's leading standards developing organizations.
• From NRC-CISTI's website, users can buy standards, specifications and codes directly from Techstreet.

Discover service

• Discover puts millions of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal articles, mostly published after 1993, at your fingertips
• Simple one-stop article shopping – no pre-registration, user name or password required – an enhanced version of the Pay-Per-Article service previously available
• Get the exact price of your article before proceeding to check-out
• Search for free and pay by credit card and, in most cases, you will get the full text immediately

NRC-CISTI Lab

• NRC-CISTI Lab is an experimental site for demonstrating and evaluating prototype software and services developed by NRC-CISTI staff and research partners
• NRC-CISTI Lab contains knowledge discovery tools available to users on a wiki platform

Ebooks

• An electronic twist on the traditional interlibrary-lending model
• Offers instant access to tens of thousands of eBooks from major scholarly publishers
• All you need is an email address and a Web browser
• Just click, pay USD 25 and read for 30 days

Research Press back files

• Round out your collection of NRC Research Press journals
• NRC Research Press is currently taking orders for the one-time purchase of their journal back files
• 13 journal back files are available through the service, with some going back as far as 1951
• Access is perpetual, with no annual maintenance fees
• $2000 per title or $18,000 for the full bundle

Canadian Journal of Botany renamed to Botany

• Since January 2008, the name change has solidified the journal's position as an international journal for plant biology
• No changes in frequency for both electronic and print formats, and the volume numbers will continue on from 2007

Two environmental journals go e-only in 2008

• Environmental Reviews and the Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science have gone "green"
• Bundle subscriptions to both journals and get a 20% discount

Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

by Susan Aiken et al.

• Innovative CD that allows quick identification of plant species and contains taxonomic descriptions and photographs, highlighting plants in their environment

Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae: Weevils of Canada and Alaska — Volume 2

by Donald E. Bright and Patrice Bouchard

• Provides information for 49 genera and 123 species of the broad-nosed weevil subfamily, several of which are detrimental to the agriculture and forestry sectors
• Includes descriptions of each species, observations on weevil biology and host plants as well as maps that illustrate species distribution

Coming soon!

Free Discover alert service – later this year

• Electronic notification of new articles in Discover
• Have alerts delivered daily or when new articles are published
• Choose delivery by email or by RSS feed
• Alert service will require minimal registration

Her Daughter, the Engineer: The Biography of Elsie Gregory MacGill

by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

• A biographical look at Vancouver native, prominent Canadian feminist and the World's first female Aeronautical engineer and professional aircraft designer, Elsie MacGill.

Atlas of Migmatites

by Edward W. Sawyer, co-published with the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC)

• Includes over 272 colour plates and accompanying detailed captions
• Provides descriptions and analyses of migmatites (highly heterogenous rocks) not previously available

Teaching Plant Anatomy through Creative Laboratory Exercises

by R.L. Peterson, Carol A. Peterson, and L.H. Melville

• Full-colour guide for instructors teaching plant structure at the high school, college, and university levels
• A CD-ROM containing all of the illustrations is included with the manual