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CISTI (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies) is a technical and scientific annual event dating back to 2006, whose purpose is to present and discuss knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations in the Information Systems and Technologies domain (IST). The dynamics associated with IST together with the growing interest of the global community in CISTI have resulted in many topics and articles published in each conference, justifying a comprehensive analysis of the literature published. In this study, we present such analysis encompassing the last four editions, between 2013 and 2016, and a total of 677 articles. To accomplish such challenge more efficiently, we adopted text mining. We assessed through topic modeling how the unveiled research trends are aligned with the main conference themes. Data-driven empirical research has proven it is still a hot subject for researchers. Likewise, education and learning are also playing a significant role in CISTI's contributions. Notwithstanding, Internet and social media are highly relevant topics for the conference, although not figuring as major themes. On the other side, health is receiving less attention. Thus, this study can lead to recommendations for future CISTI's themes, in addition to providing an overview of current research trends. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

NRC-CISTI serves Canada as its National Science Library (as mandated by Canada's Parliament in 1924) and also provides direct support to researchers of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). By reason of its mandate, vision, and strategic positioning, NRC-CISTI has been rapidly and effectively mobilizing Canadian stakeholders and resources to become a lead player on both the Canadian national and international scenes in matters relating to the organization and management of scientific research data. In a previous communication (CODATA International Conference, 2008), the orientation of NRC-CISTI towards this objective and its short- and medium-term plans and strategies were presented. Since then, significant milestones have been achieved. This paper presents NRC-CISTI's most recent activities in these areas, which are progressing well alongside a strategic organizational redesign process that is realigning NRC-CISTI's structure, mission, and mandate to better serve its clients. Throughout this transformational phase, activities relating to data management remain vibrant.

In the Canadian research environment, it is difficult for researchers to effectively discover, access, and use data sets, except for those that are the most well known. Several recent reports have discussed the issues around "lost" data sets: those which are intended to be shared but cannot be identified and utilized effectively because of insufficient associated metadata. Both problems are approaching critical levels in Canada and internationally, a situation that is unacceptable because these data sets are often generated as a result of public funding. Solutions may involve providing support and training for researchers on how they can best collect and manage their data sets or developing gateways to scientific data sets. NRC-CISTI is the largest comprehensive source of scientific, technical, and medical information in North America, with a mandate to serve as Canada's national science library. Through its publishing arm, NRC Research Press, it is also Canada's foremost scientific publisher. NRC-CISTI is an organization with demonstrated expertise in metadata management, which, until recently, focused primarily on library and publishing contexts. However in November 2007, it formally committed to expand its agenda to address the management of scientific research data and the related critical needs of the research community. This paper presents NRC-CISTI's activities in this area. NRC-CISTI has begun by hosting forums in which the critical players (including the granting agencies) mapped out targets and approaches. It has strengthened its own internal expertise regarding metadata and management of scientific data sets. Finally, NRC-CISTI is developing a gateway Web site which will provide access to Canadian scientific data sets and related metadata, tools, educational resources, and other informative and collaborative tools urgently needed by Canadian and international researchers. NRC-CISTI is the sponsoring body for the Canadian National Committee for CODATA and is committed to promoting and supporting CNC/CODATA's initiatives.

This article discusses the experience and challenges involved in implementing enterprise and service oriented architecture practice at CISTI, conveys CISTI's progress and plans, and illustrates how architecture could affect how libraries meet their mandate in the future.

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the impact of the open access movement on the document supply of grey literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a comparative survey of five major scientific and technical information centres: The British Library (UK), KM (Canada), INIST-CNRS (France), KISTI (South Korea) and TIB Hannover (Germany). Findings – The five institutions supplied less than 1.8 million supplied items in 2014, i.e. half of the activity in 2004 (−55 per cent). There were 85,000 grey documents, mainly conference proceedings and reports, i.e. 5 per cent of the overall activity, a historically low level compared to 2004 (−72 per cent). At the same time, they continue to expand their open access strategies. Just as in 2004 and 2008, these strategies are specific, and they reflect institutional and national choices rather than global approaches, with two or three common or comparable projects (PubMed Central, national repositories, attribution of DOIs to datasets, dissertations and other objects). In spite of all differences, their development reveals some common features, like budget cuts, legal barriers (copyright), focus on domestic needs and open access policies to foster dissemination and impact of research results. Document supply for corporate customers tends to become a business-to-business service, while the delivery for the public sector relies more, than before, on resource sharing and networking with academic and public libraries. Except perhaps for the TIB Hannover, the declining importance of grey literature points towards their changing role – less intermediation, less acquisition and collection development and more high-value services, more dissemination and preservation capacities designed for the scientific community needs (research excellence, open access, data management, etc.). Originality/value – The paper is a follow-up study of two surveys published in 2006 and 2009.

MAXI J1836-194 is a Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary that was discovered in 2011 when it went into outburst. In this paper, we present the full radio monitoring of this system during its `failed' outburst, in which the source did not complete a full set of state changes, only transitioning as far as the hard intermediate state. Observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) show that the jet properties changed significantly during the outburst. The VLA observations detected linearly polarised emission at a level of ~1% early in the outburst, increasing to ~3% as the outburst peaked. High-resolution images with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) show a ~15 mas jet along the position angle $-21 \pm 2^\circ$, in agreement with the electric vector position angle found from our polarisation results ($-21 \pm 4^\circ$), implying that the magnetic field is perpendicular to the jet. Astrometric observations suggest that the system required an asymmetric natal kick to explain its observed space velocity. Comparing quasi-simultaneous X-ray monitoring with the 5 GHz VLA observations from the 2011 outburst shows an unusually steep hard-state radio/X-ray correlation of $L_{\rm R} \propto L_{\rm X}^{1.8\pm0.2}$, where $L_{\rm R}$ and $L_{\rm X}$ denote the radio and X-ray luminosities, respectively. With ATCA and Swift monitoring of the source during a period of re-brightening in 2012, we show that the system lay on the same steep correlation. Due to the low inclination of this system, we then investigate the possibility that the observed correlation may have been steepened by variable Doppler boosting., 18 pages, 4 tables, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Librarians frequently express their reluctance to get involved in international lending. This can perhaps be attributed to a feeling that their interests lie closer to home. As a result, they tend to view requests from libraries in other countries as an exceptional problem to be solved rather than part of the regular workflow. A few bad experiences with international lending can forever color the feeling of interlibrary loan offices about requests from abroad. The general feeling is a dismissive “Why bother?” CISTI has taken a more optimistic view of international resource sharing. CISTI has, in fact, taken up the challenge of supplying to libraries outside of North America, realizing that as the world shrinks, along with library budgets, we must be prepared to look beyond our own borders. This article provides a review of CISTI's experiences and some practical advice for dealing with particular issues, such as lending across long distances, language barriers, messaging and ordering systems, international mail and Customs controls and billing issues.

Il rene policistico autosomico dominante (ADPKD) è una malattia genetica molto comune, caratterizzata dalla formazione di cisti in entrambi i reni. Diverse considerazioni circa i meccanismi genetici e molecolari che stanno alla base della formazione delle cisti in questa malattia sono ancora controverse, ma c'è oggi un ampio consenso sul fatto che la ADPKD sia dovuta alla perdita di funzionalità di uno dei due geni mutati nella malattia, PKD1 o PKD2. In questo breve articolo parleremo in particolare di due aspetti: 1) cercheremo di dare una panoramica sullo stato dell'arte di quanto a oggi compreso sulle basi genetiche e molecolari della malattia, cercando di fornire una visione integrata dei diversi modelli di cistogenesi proposti; 2) forniremo una descrizione dettagliata e un'ampia discussione sui recenti risultati riportati dal nostro laboratorio su un difetto a livello del metabolismo del glucosio nella ADPKD e sulle sue potenziali implicazioni terapeutiche, evidenziando anche la necessità di un'ulteriore validazione dei nostri risultati in altri modelli animali di malattia a esordio tardivo e a progressione lenta.

The NRC-CISTI library had its beginnings in 1924, when a small resource collection was established to serve the scientific staff of the newly organized laboratories of the National Research Council of Canada. The pioneering chief librarian, Margaret Gill, was appointed in 1928. The first president, Dr. H.M. Tory made it clear from the outset, however, that he intended to create “a library that would serve scientific workers everywhere in Canada.” During her 30 years, Miss Gill built up one of the strongest collections of scientific journals in Canada. NRC and its library moved in 1932 to its new location on Sussex Drive., La foundation de la bibliothèque de l’ICIST-CNRC remonte à 1924 avec l’établissement d’une modeste collection de ressources pour servir le personnel scientifique des nouveaux laboratories du Conseil national de recherches du Canada. En 1928, Margaret Gill est nommée bibliothécaire en chef et fait figure de pionnière dans ce domaine. Le premier président du Conseil, Henry Marshall Tory, announce clairement son intention de créer «une bibliothèque pour servir tous les travailleurs scientifiques de partout au Canada». Durant ses 30 années de carrière, Mme Gill a composé l’une des collections de revues scientifiques les plus complètes au Canada. En 1932, le CNRC et sa bibliothèque déménagent à leur nouvelle adresse sur promenade Sussex.

CISTI, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, is a division of the National Research Council of Canada. Our formal mandate is "to promote and provide for the use of scientific and technical information by the government and people of Canada for the purposes of economic, regional and social development." This means in essence first, to maintain a national resource of scientific and technical information, and second, to provide services which enable Canadians to use that resource. I will divide my talk into two major parts: first, the collection itself; and second, the services provided to make this collection available to Canadians.

The communication addresses different aspects of accessibility and dissemination of grey literature in the digital age when the de-materialization of documents leads to a new paradigm that overcomes the intrinsic characteristics of print material. Based on the added value of grey literature for academic institutions, the communication attempts an analysis of the ongoing transformations; especially concerning the way research and development in the grey area have become part of the open access movement. In this context, we analyse some supply services for the dissemination of grey literature: their typology, their strategic approach, and the special conditions and characteristics of their service. The analysis starts with a review and an update of professional information on the main European supplier of grey literature. For some of them, the review is completed by an empirical survey. We conclude with some remarks on significant developments in grey supply. Who are dynamical actors in this playground, where are original and interesting services and approaches? Where the dissemination of grey literature is moving, and what is the logic of this movement? Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentary XA International

SUMMARY In the eight years since its release, IntelliDoc has raised the standard for Document Delivery worldwide, and increased international recognition of CISTI as a major force in the information industry. IntelliDoc integrated a multitude of automated processes into a unified whole, enabling CISTI to offer close to same-day delivery of documents worldwide. IntelliDoc integrates document ordering from a host of ordering methods, scanning of documents from collections at CISTI and in partner collections, and a range of delivery options.

Canada produces just 3% of the world's total GNP; it is a prosperous country, but a small one. Canada also produces about 3% of the world's research, roughly in line with its GNP. However, its main science, technology and medical library is the largest in the world. That library is called the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)., The Second International AESE/CBE/EASE Joint Meeting, Sixth International Conference on Geoscience Information, and Thirty-second Annual Meeting. September 10-14, 1998. Washington, D.C.

Report of a forum organized by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. The strategic plan of CISTI highlights its role as a catalyst in the development of a Canadian scientific and technical information network. The internet has emerged as a powerful resource for the educational and research sector; however a corresponding development within the federal government has been slow. The internet is the world's largest compuer network. It connects about 70 million people in 61 countries.

The theme of this year's DIA meeting - the dissemination, availability, source, and quality of drug information - reflects the continuing concern over the prolific amount of information being published every year and the importance of having access to the right information at the right time. The modes of access to the biomedical literature have changed drastically in the last 10 years, bringing us into the age of computer-based information services. In response to this change, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) has been playing an important role since the middle of the sixties in providing access to computerized bibliographic information systems in Canada.

After an examination of the etiological,clinical and radiological aspects on pathology of maxillary sinus, the author describes an unusual case of antral mucocele associated with radicular cyst. Surgical resection and occurences are examined. - L'autore dopo aver esaminato gli aspetti eziopatogenetici, clinici e radiologici della patologia dei seni paranasali, discute sulla contestualità di un reperto clinico di mucocele associato a cisti radicolare del seno mascellare. Vengono a questo proprosito discusse le diagnosi differenziali e le indicazioni chirurgiche relative.