Stable URLs, NLC and DSP URLs are linked to when possible. A few, selected documents are printed off. Many paper serial publications are received, but only a very select few are professionally bound. A large backlog of current and older serials are being bound in-house. Federal government documents have been issued in many formats, some of which were never easy to access, some of which have become obsolete.
Care needs to be taken to ensure that important content is available in alternative formats.
The monthly Canadian Research Index in print can be used to find Canadian documents from provinces outside the Atlantic region. Key government journals are indexed in Canadian Periodical Index and CBCA and other subject-specific indexes. Numerous finding aids and indexes to government information, such as the Statistics Canada Catalogue, exist online and are linked to from the Government Documents web page.