NRC-CISTI's collection is one of the largest in North America. Nearly 500 new items are received every day. It includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.

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Facts about the collection

The NRC-CISTI collection includes:

• over 50,000 different serial titles
• over 800,000 books, conference proceedings and technical reports
• 2 million technical reports on microfiche from around the world
• journals from the world's leading scientific publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer-Verlag and others
• all languages and all countries where sci/tech information is published
• journals indexed in major scientific and medical databases

Conference proceedings - a specialty

New information is often found only in published papers from scientific conferences. NRC-CISTI makes a special effort to locate, purchase and catalogue conference proceedings from around the world. Since some journals publish conference papers as part of their series, NRC-CISTI staff scan every journal received each day to ensure that we identify the conference issues. As a result, NRC-CISTI's collection of published scientific conference proceedings is one of the best in the world.