The future of scientific and technical information is changing ; new technologies are reshaping the way information is processed, transferred and used, and are altering the way the various participants interact. It is vital now, more than ever before, to exchange views, share experiences, and ensure cooperation among all participants in information flow.

Enjoy the Benefits That Our Members Most Value :

• Privileged access to the latest developments in scientific information and data via a weekly news and alerting service
• ‘ICSTI Insights’, a quarterly ‘critical issues’ communiqué presenting in-depth analysis of subjects customised to member interests
• Evidence-based research on key developments – White Papers, Reviews and Reports
• Principal sponsorship of ground-breaking initiatives such as WorldWideScience.org (a global science gateway with one stop search capacity connecting international science databases)
• Liaison with science decision-makers on all matters relating to information and data, enabling members to understand and anticipate changes in information seeking, sharing and usage behaviours of research scientists. Close working relationships with the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
• High quality conferences on sci-tech information topics of the moment and of the future which present opportunities for networking with business leaders, policy makers and high level representatives from academe
• Engagement in our international programme of technical projects managed through ICSTI’s Technical Activities Coordination Committee
• Peer to peer exchange between members
• Future focus of our Information Policy Committee as a forum that assists members’ decision making on complex issues

Scientific unions, associations, learned societies, national academies
"IUPAC, as an international provider and consumer of physical and chemical information and data, regards its association with ICSTI of importance in its operations and to its service community."

Leslie Glasser, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

Abstracting and indexing services, data centres, publishers, online vendors, networks, libraries, information centres, and policy making bodies "Providing complete access to global scientific and technical information can only be achieved by global co-operation. ICSTI is one of the most powerful networks in this area and TIB is glad to be a part of it."

Uwe Rosemann, Director, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

"ICSTI provides great opportunities for networking across boundaries, with publicly funded, for profit and not-for-profit, as well as truly international members, every meeting provides new ideas to explore and new partners to work with."

Helle Lauridsen, CSA Illustrata Product Manager, ProQuest

Organisations with interests in common with those of ICSTI who wish to remain current with and contribute to the development of scientific and technical information
"Joining and engaging with ICSTI has provided my organization with greater insight into the many challenges of managing scientific information and data. Perhaps most valuable is that it provides a true international perspective to both the problems and solutions."

Lee Dirks, Director, Education & Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Corporation