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The Canada Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information (CISTI) is pleased to announce the recent
addition of 135 new medical and health journals to its collection.
CISTI is committed to providing better access to medical information
for the health sciences communities it serves.
“Adding these new journals to CISTI’s
collection enables us to provide healthcare providers and
practitioners, scientists, patients and librarians with timely
access to a broader range of health-related information,” said
Bernard Dumouchel, Director General, CISTI.
The decision to add new titles is
primarily based on growing client demand. A collection gap analysis
identified those titles that were often requested through document
delivery, but not available at CISTI. The decision was reinforced by
feedback from the Committee on Health Sciences Information (CHSI),
an advisory committee to CISTI. CHSI members are drawn from Canada’s
major health and medical library associations.
“CISTI selected leading industry
journals, thanks to this review process,” explained Beverly Brown,
special projects coordinator, information delivery systems. “For
example, CISTI is now subscribing to a number of expert review and
current reports titles, as well as current opinion journals — all
key publications not readily available in Canada before.”
The CISTI collection of scientific,
technical and medical information already includes more than 10,000
medical serial titles and 340 pharmaceutical journals. The
collection covers 70 per cent of Medline’s indexed journals. Of the
new titles, 33 are indexed in CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing
and Allied Health Literature), 90 per cent are indexed for Medline
and PubMed, and 60 per cent are indexed in CISTI Source.
Through access to a broader selection
of medical and health titles, CISTI is improving its support to
health sciences research conducted by medical, biotechnology and
pharmaceutical researchers in academic, government and private
sector organizations.
You can
order documents and articles from any item in CISTI’s collection
online, including the expanded health sciences collection. A
full list of the recently added medical and health journal titles
is also available.
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