Company:NRC Research Press
| Parent company | Canadian Science Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1929 |
| Founder | National Research Council |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Headquarters location | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Publication types | academic journals, monographs |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | nrcresearchpress |
NRC Research Press is the largest scientific publisher in Canada . It publishes 24 journals in a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines, and is distributed to over 125 countries.
NRC Research Press was originally the publishing arm of the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI). Since September 2010, it is a private, not-for-profit company called "Canadian Science Publishing" and continues to publish the NRC Research Press journals.[1]
All journals are available online full-text in both pdf and HTML format and are accessible before print publication.
History
The NRC Research Press was founded in 1929 when the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada launched the Canadian Journal of Research in response to requests from Canadian science societies who were too small to run their own journals. Since then, the organization has grown, modernized, and in 2010 was spun off as a not-for-profit company independent of the NRC, now named Canadian Science Publishing.
Since 2010, Canadian Science Publishing has acquired five new journals:
- Canadian Journal of Animal Science
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science
- Geomatica
- Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
Since 2010, Canadian Science Publishing has also launched four new journals
Open access
NRC Research Press, or Canadian Science Publishing, has open access options for researchers that wish to make their work as widely available as possible. It publishes three interdisciplinary open access journals:
Arctic Science aims to provide a collaborative approach to Arctic research for a diverse group of users including government, policy makers, the general public, and researchers across all scientific fields
FACETS is Canada's first open access multidisciplinary science journal, aiming to advance science by publishing research that the multi-faceted global community of research. FACETS is the official journal of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Science.
Anthropocene Coasts aims to understand and predict the effects of human activity, including climate change, on coastal regions.
In addition, Canadian Science Publishing strives to make their content accessible through the CSP blog that includes plain language summaries of featured research. The open-access journal FACETS similarly publishes plain language summaries.
Organizational membership
NRC Research Press is a member of
- Society of Scholarly Publishing
- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
- Council of Science Editors
- CrossRef
- Canadian Association of Learned Journals
Publications
NRC Research Press publishes the following journals:
Many of those journals were originally published as sections of Canadian Journal of Research, now defunct. Other defunct journals include Canadian Journal of Biochemistry and Physiology and Canadian Journal of Medical Sciences.
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