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Welcome to CISTI Lab

CISTI Lab is an experimental site for demonstrating and evaluating web-based experimental applications for science libraries and new innovations and approaches to electronic publishing. It is a place for NRC-CISTI to demonstrate prototypes, collaborate with researchers within NRC as well as universities, libraries, publishers, and the private sector, and to obtain feedback from early adopters.

Want to develop applications using CISTI Lab software tools? Contact us.

Sarkanto Recommender CISTI Mobile Website
Sarkanto - provides an elementary search engine for a Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) digital library portal that generates recommendations that are based citation-patterns (using Synthese) or user-preferences (using ExLibris 'bX'). Sarkanto indexes ~ 7 million articles spanning 2,750 journals that contain 4.3 million references and generates ~ 1.9 million recommendations.

Try the Sarkanto Demo.

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Checkout the CISTI Mobile Website - bringing many of the information discovery abilities of CISTI to your smartphone. Suitable for iPhone, Blackberry and Android phones, the new mobile website allows searching of CISTI's local catalogue and information sources, as well as many science and technology publications around the world. Find and contact your local NRC-CISTI library, and follow CISTI via Twitter or Facebook.

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Innovation Challenge
Read about CISTI's internal Innovation Challenge. Winners were announced March 19, 2009.