It also provides all technical library support services to Health Canada as part of a partnership that began in 2010.

[3] DataCite – NRC's National Science Library is a founding member of this worldwide consortium for allocating DOIs to datasets.

NRC researchers are also able to combine searches with these and other publisher sites and databases that the NSL licenses on their behalf.

It contains tens of thousands of freely available scientific articles, technical reports, book chapters and other NRC-authored publications.

From the late 1990s until 2010, the library was one of the largest providers of documents in the areas of science technology and medicine in the world.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) handles all aspects of registration, delivery, billing and customer service for all NRC, Canadian, US and international clients wishing to obtain documents and materials in the NRC National Science Library collection.