NRC Research Press

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.com

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:

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

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.

References

  1. ↑ "The NRC Research Press is no more? Les Presses du CRTC ne sont plus?". 4 September 2010. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012.


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