Disclaimer: I work for NRC-CISTI, and was asked if I could be so kind as to spread the word on CISTI's recent partnership initiative as part of CISTI's transformation process this year. The following is an excerpt from the recent email notice to clients. Please send your questions to the contact listed below:
Today, we are pleased to announce that Infotrieve,
Inc., a leader in information center technology development and document
delivery for more than 20 years, will be collaborating with NRC-CISTI on
providing document delivery services for our clients and business partners.
Infotrieve will be acting on NRC-CISTI’s behalf within Canada and will be
providing exclusive services to our US and International clients. The transition
will begin immediately and the process will be completed by
March 31, 2010.
Over the next three to four months NRC-CISTI and Infotrieve will work
closely together to transition all clients, starting with US clients, to
Infotrieve’s world-class document delivery services using award winning
technology for sourcing and delivering document orders. You will be able to
recognize these orders by the accompanying coversheet or e-mail, which will
reference Infotrieve. It is important to note that during this transition you
should continue to use the same ordering methods you have been using to find
and order documents, and you will be billed for services according to the
identical price list currently used by NRC-CISTI. There will not be any changes
to your current workflow for finding, ordering, or receiving document.
NRC-CISTI will also continue to offer licensed access to information content
and information services to the National Research Council. More details on what
to expect can be found in the NRC-CISTI
and Infotrieve Collaboration Question & Answer Guide.
Infotrieve has the fastest document delivery turnaround time in the industry
which is achieved by leveraging over 40 million citations available within
their own database and Infotrieve’s STM Library™ of managed print collections.
Add to that the world renowned NRC-CISTI Canadian national science library
collection with more than 50,000 serial titles, 800,000 books, conference
proceedings, plus 2 million technical reports, and indexed journals in many
languages and you’ve got an enormous collection of scientific, technical and
medical (STM) content literally at your fingertips. This combination of
content, expertise and technology will enable us to provide NRC-CISTI clients
with improved services including faster turnaround times and higher document
quality.
We
will be providing you with regular updates as we progress through this transition.
You can also consult our website or
contact us at 613-998-8544 or 1-800-668-1222 (toll-free) or info.cisti@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
