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Winter 2007
VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3
In This Issue
- Changing of the Guard at NRC-CISTI
- New eBook Loans service comes to NRC-CISTI
- CTI adds weight to SME business plan
- Research Press partners with Portico to preserve journal content
- New Director for NRC-CISTI's Information Access and Delivery Directorate
- New from Research Press!
- Kudos to authors of Federal Science eLibrary Pilot article
- Short Takes
Changing of the Guard at NRC-CISTI
Bernard Dumouchel, Director General of NRC-CISTI, is retiring after 36 years of service to Canada's library community. He joined NRC-CISTI in 1987 as Director of Resource Development, and has been DG for the past 9 years.
Mr. Dumouchel has devoted himself to strengthening NRC-CISTI's position as a knowledge broker that provides high-value and specialized STM information and publishing services to researchers and entrepreneurs in the academic, private and public sectors. His vision has helped NRC-CISTI emerge as a driving force in the exploitation of scientific information for innovation, especially in harnessing the power of digital STM information. Under his leadership, NRC-CISTI has partnered with information organizations in Canada and abroad to develop a national "infostructure" to provide universal, seamless and permanent access to the world's STM information.
Mr. Dumouchel has held several positions in the broader library community, including Vice-chair of the Council of Federal Libraries, Vice-president of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, and President of the OCLC Canada Advisory Council. He was also a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries.
He has been honoured by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries with the Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship Award in 2001 and by the National Research Council with an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2005.
Pam Bjornson is succeeding Mr. Dumouchel as NRC-CISTI's new Director General. She comes to the position following five years as NRC-CISTI's Director Business Affairs, where she was responsible for marketing, communications, administrative and client services, and created the partnership development function to support the goals of NRC-CISTI's Strategic Plan. She also managed the particularly critical challenges of financial planning, risk management and overall business planning and execution.
Ms. Bjornson has an MBA from the University of Ottawa, and brings 25 years of management experience to this position, including nine years as the Executive Director of Canadiana.org, a not-for-profit organization established by the major Canadian university libraries and the National Library of Canada to preserve Canada's printed heritage and make the resulting collection accessible to research libraries in Canada and around the world.
She has built strategic partnerships and collaborations with private sector organizations, academia, and government departments and agencies. Ms. Bjornson is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and has previously held similar board and committee roles with other national library-related organizations.
With her solid management experience, her strong links to the library and publishing communities and her existing in-depth knowledge of NRC-CISTI and its programs, Ms. Bjornson is well equipped to build on NRC-CISTI's strong foundation and lead it towards a future that will be both challenging and exciting.
Another change at NRC-CISTI is the retirement of Suzanne Bureau, Director of Collection and Metadata Services (C&MS). For the past six years, Suzanne has been responsible for the selection, acquisition and cataloguing of NRC-CISTI materials, as well as the data management of the NRC-CISTI Catalogue and other bibliographic databases.
C&MS is now under the able leadership of Lucie Molgat, who brings 28 years' experience in the library and information management field, specializing in project management, systems development and integration, and transformation management. Lucie will maintain her directorship of Canada' s scientific infostructure (Csi), a transformative initiative to establish an S&T information infrastructure that will support a national digital repository.
New eBook Loans service comes to NRC-CISTI
NRC-CISTI, in partnership with MyiLibrary, a leading aggregated eContent platform, is pleased to present eBook Loans, a new, affordable and effective service to access eBook content at the desktop. With this service, which will be available in spring 2007, clients will be able to select from thousands of eBooks available on the NRC-CISTI Catalogue, place an order through the MyiLibrary platform, and access the eBook immediately.
Libraries are seeking solutions to provide seamless, affordable access to electronic information for their users. Users are seeking immediate desktop access to the information they need. NRC-CISTI, a leading provider of information and content, offers an innovative new way to access expanding eBook content in science, technology, medicine (STM), business and the social sciences.
The eBook Loans Service will allow users to find relevant STM, business and social science eBooks from major eBook publishers and access the eBook for a four-week loan with no mailing wait. Users can search and read the book online, copy, paste and print a limited number of pages, as well as track the loan. Libraries will avoid costly loan processing and delays caused by recalls, late returns and lost books. The eBook Loans Service will be offered at an affordable fee of $25 USD.
For easy access to the eBook Loans Service, search the NRC-CISTI Catalogue at http://cat.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/search and follow the links from any eBook record to borrow an eBook.
For more information about this new service, please e-mail info.cisti@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
CTI adds weight to SME business plan
Having both confidence and credibility are essential when organizations go looking for financial assistance to develop and commercialize their products. For Avalon Microelectronics this was certainly the case. Thanks to NRC-CISTI's Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) program this small Atlantic Canada manufacturer of custom microchips now has both.
CTI provided a valuable brief that strengthened Avalon Microelectronics' IRAP funding proposal by:
- validating market demand
- identifying competitors
- proposing product adjustments, and
- revealing a proposed product price that was too low.
The CTI brief fully endorsed the technology initiative and ultimately convinced the IRAP Industrial Technology Advisor to recommend funding the project. As a result, today Avalon Microelectronics is a going concern with:
- offices at the Genesis Centre (a technology incubator for entrepreneurs and businesses with high-growth potential)
- two new technical employees
- funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
- sales of more than $500,000 in the past three months.
CTI Testimonial
"It is my opinion that the positive attributes of the CTI brief have given Avalon Microelectronics, both confidence and credibility. Confidence has enabled the small business owner to make sales and generate much needed revenues.
The confidence comes from knowledge of competitors and industry trends.
The credibility has a positive impact on funding agencies such as ACOA and IRAP, giving us tremendous confidence in our funding decisions.
Personally, I consider the CTI program to be the most valued tool at an ITA's disposal."
Kevin Skinner, P. Eng.,
Industrial Technology Advisor
NRC / IRAP - Gander, NL
Research Press partners with Portico to preserve journal content
NRC Research Press, NRC-CISTI's publishing arm, is pleased to announce that it has signed a journal archiving agreement with Portico. Through this agreement, NRC Research Press will ensure its entire collection of 16 journal titles (listed below) is preserved for future scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students from around the world.
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Canadian Geotechnical Journal
Canadian Journal of Botany
Canadian Journal of Chemistry
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Canadian Journal of Physics
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Environmental Reviews
Genome
Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
In addition to journals, the Press publishes a growing number of books and conference proceedings each year in fields ranging from botany to civil engineering.
NRC Research Press has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Portico archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims.
For more information about NRC Research Press, please contact Jason Charron, NRC Research Press Business Manager at 613-993-9093 or Jason.Charron@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
New Director for NRC-CISTI's Information Access and Delivery Directorate
NRC-CISTI is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Ireland to the position of Director, Information Access and Delivery (IAD), a wide-ranging responsibility that includes Document Delivery & Onsite Services, e-Information Services, the NRC e-Library and the NRC Web Office.
Michael has worked in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in library acquisitions, cataloguing and document delivery at NRC-CISTI since 1982. He was Business Manager of Information Access and Delivery and Manager of Document Delivery during the five years before he became Acting IAD Director in August 2005.
Most recently Michael has been working on initiatives to develop new NRC-CISTI products to meet the challenge of the new electronic environment such as the forthcoming online credit card article and eBook Loans ordering services. In his new role, he will be responsible for leading the development and provision of access and content delivery tools, services and expertise to facilitate discovery and exploitation of STM information from NRC-CISTI for Canadian research and innovation, a critical component of success in reaching the first goal of the NRC-CISTI Strategic Plan, which is to provide universal, seamless and permanent access to information.
For further information, contact Michael Ireland at 613-991-9988, or by e-mail at Michael.Ireland@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca.
New from Research Press!
NRC Research Press is proud to announce the publication of Culinary Herbs, 2nd edition (ISBN 0-660-19073-7), by Ernest Small. This comprehensive guide to culinary herbs grown in Canada and the United States has been redesigned to incorporate over 400 full-colour illustrations, including photographs and historical botanical illustrations, and features information from up-to-date research and statistics.
Also available are:
Mycorrhizas: Anatomy and Cell Biology Images (ISBN 0-660-19404-X) by R. Larry Peterson, Hugues B. Massicotte, Lewis H. Melville, and Forrest Phillips. Mycorrhiza is the general term applied to mutualistic root-fungal partnerships. This CD presents a visual description of all mycorrhiza categories and includes detailed structural information obtained by light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and laser scanning confocal microscopy.
This is a supplementary resource, designed so that images can be uploaded into presentations for teaching and seminars. Many of the images have been published in the book Mycorrhizas: Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Lower Permian Colonial Rugose Corals, Western and Northwestern Pangaea: Taxonomy and Distribution (ISBN 0-660-19664-6) by Jerzy Fedorowski, E. Wayne Bamber, and Calvin H. Stevens is the subject's most comprehensive summary available. It reviews old collections studied by other coral specialists, beginning in the early 1900s, and features a thorough review of all published data, as well as a new classification and phylogenetic scheme, based on critical restudy of the entire coral fauna at all taxonomic levels.
Research Press publications may be purchased by:
Telephone: 613-990-2254
E-mail: monographs.cisti@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Internet: http://pubs.nrc.gc.ca
Kudos to authors of Federal Science eLibrary Pilot article
The Electronic Library has selected an article for publication entitled "Federal Science eLibrary Pilot: seamless, equitable desktop access for Canadian government researchers".
Authored by Beverly Brown (Pilot Project Manager), Cyndie Found (Pilot Project Coordinator), and Merle McConnell (Chair, Strategic Alliance of Federal Science and Technology Libraries, the alliance heading the eLibrary initiative), the article is scheduled to appear in the February 2007 edition of the on-line publication.
In the article, the authors describe the results of the NRC-CISTI-managed pilot, which was designed to evaluate the impact of increased access to e-journals on 500 Government of Canada researchers at pilot sites across Canada.
Published by Emerald, The Electronic Library focuses on the applications and implications of new information and communication technologies in today's digital library and information environments.
For more information about the Federal Science eLibrary and the Pilot Project, visit http://safstl-asbstf.scitech.gc.ca/eng/index.html.
Short Takes
50% Reduction in Research Press Pay-per-view rates
NRC RP is committed to making its content more accessible to researchers everywhere. Since October 2, 2006, NRC Research Press Pay-per-view articles have cost only $10 – a dramatic savings for users. If you need immediate and unrestricted access to information, please contact us at pubs@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca to learn how subscriptions can help.
New Extended Supply Service
Watch for news about NRC-CISTI's new Extended Supply Service coming in the next issue of NRC-CISTI News. Information will also be available on the NRC-CISTI Web site at http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/cisti.html in March.
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ISSN 0715-8661
