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Experimental Harvest of Canadian Repositories
Using the PKP Open Harvester, we've configured a harvest of metadata from any/all available Canadian academic institutions. The initial list of resources was based on the CARL harvester (now unmaintained), and others were discovered by reviewing CARL's membership list and searching for relevant repositories.
- NRC-CISTI Experimental Harvester (Search)
- NRC-CISTI Experimental Harvester (Browse - List of harvested repositories)
CISTI Mobile Website
The CISTI Mobile Website was a prototype site built to discover some of the issues and means to creating a mobile website. This prototype was transformed into a full service of CISTI in June 2011. Check out the CISTI Mobile Website.
CISTI LibX Toolbar
The CISTI LibX library toolbar allows CISTI to travel with you on the web to provide library assistance whenever you need it. This version includes resources only available to staff of the National Research Council of Canada -- but is likely to be useful for any CISTI Patron. It's available for the Firefox browser, or in experimental beta for Internet Explorer.
OpenSearch
OpenSearch compatible browser addons are available and easily installed to search CISTI and NRC resources from your browser quicksearch bar. The OpenSearch plugins are compatible with more browser versions, and provide more features than the former "Firefox Quick Searches".
View and install CISTI OpenSearch plugins
CISTI OAI-PMH
CISTI provides the ability to harvest metadata via OAI-PMH from some of its databases:
- NRC Publications Archive (NPArC):
- PMC Canada:
CISTI Link Resolver Base URLs
Adding these base URLs to applications that ask for a link resolver will allow you to use CISTI's link resolver to provide more options for finding content and services. These OpenURL base URL's are commonly used by researchers in applications such as EndNote, Zotero, and other citation management applications. See also: OpenURL on Wikipedia
- For staff of the National Research Council copy and paste: http://res.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sfxlcl3/
- For any CISTI patron or member of the public copy and paste: http://res.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sfx_ext_lcl3/
CISTI Search Yahoo Widget
The CISTI Search widget allows you to perform searches on the CISTI Library Catalogue from your desktop, and will allow you to determine the status of your CISTI loans and orders if you decide to enter your account information in the widget preferences. Users can also modify their catalogue prefix to point to their own library catalogue if desired. This was the first library catalogue widget created for Yahoo widgets. You must install the Yahoo Widgets to use.
- Download CISTI Yahoo Widget - as hosted by Yahoo's widget gallery.
Deprecated items
These items are no longer maintained, and may no longer be available, or may no longer work with current browsers or websites.
CISTI Catalogue RSS Feed
Enter your keyword(s) and select submit in the form linked below to create an RSS feed from the CISTI Catalogue for your search query:
This feed is generated from CISTI's Catalogue using Yahoo Pipes - visit the CISTI Catalogue RSS Feed pipe page to see how it was constructed, and to generate other kinds of outputs from this pipe - examples include embeddable code for blogs, and other formats that might be suitable for web applications.
CISTI SRU API
An experimental SRU search API is available for 3rd party applications to query CISTI's article-level metadata. The API provides access to the same article-level data used for CISTI Discover - but via the SRU standard.
Firefox Quick Searches
Firefox and Mozilla-based web browsers allow you to extend the search box in the upper right-hand side of the browser by adding quick searches. CISTI Lab provides a selection of these quick search enhancements for various resources including the CISTI catalogue, CISTI Discover, the NRC Expertise database, and other resources. These have now been replaced by a similar set of OpenSearch plugins.
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets to proxy pages, and highlight links within particular websites. These bookmarklets were integrated into the CISTI Toolbar, and have been provided for use by CISTI's Virtual Library.
CISTI Toolbar
The first firefox toolbar extension created for CISTI, now unmaintained as the CISTI LibX Toolbar has replaced its functionality.
CISTI VuFind Catalogue WebOPAC
CISTI is experimenting with a new WebOPAC (Catalogue) interface that we help will be better able to accommodate Commmon Look and Feel standards for Canadian government websites.
It is felt that the change could help to provide a better, more user-oriented website for CISTI clients - particularly researchers and other knowledge workers. Included in this interface are options to tag and comment on particular works, to export citations into common citation management tools, to email/text results, to subscribe to RSS feeds for searches. Essentially a modern web 2.0 library catalogue.
This new interface is based on VuFind. Notably, the National Library of Australia have recently adopted a version of the VuFind WebOPAC.
