About SAFSTL

The Strategic Alliance was formed in 2000 by a group of library managers at the six major science-based federal departments/agencies who understood the fundamental role of information in the R&D process and the implications of researchers having inadequate and unequal desktop access to relevant, current scientific information.

Our Vision

To contribute to Canada's innovativeness and competitiveness by providing a broad and constantly evolving spectrum of key information resources in science, technology and medicine to all federal government scientists and researchers. This will be accomplished through a series of collaborative efforts, including the development of:

• a web gateway to enable seamless searching of the federal sci-tech library catalogues
• a state-of-the-art digital library available anywhere, anytime, featuring personalized client services provided by information specialists.

Web Gateway to Catalogues

A business case for a web gateway for the library catalogues of the six departments was completed in 2001.

Federal Science eLibrary

The proposed Federal Science eLibrary will:

• give all Government of Canada employees desktop access to current, pertinent electronic publications
• guarantee access to researchers in every region and in every department, eliminating the patchwork of inequities that currently exist
• create a cross-departmental, multi-disciplinary environment, enabling researchers to work collaboratively to support the government's key science-based activities.