UKSG Transfer Code of Practice to be Maintained by NISO
From: "NISO" <niso-announce_at_niso.org>
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG announce
that the Transfer Code of Practice will now be supported and maintained
by NISO. The Code provides voluntary guidelines for publishers to follow
when transferring journal titles between parties to ensure that the
journal content remains easily accessible by librarians and readers.
NISO has republished Transfer version 3.0 as a NISO Recommended Practice
(NISO RP-24-2015) and will move all supporting documentation to the NISO
website. A NISO Standing Committee has been established to manage the
ongoing support of the Transfer Code of Practice.
***To learn more about Transfer and the transition to NISO, join us for
an open teleconference call today (Monday, February 9) at 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Eastern time. The call is free and anyone is welcome to participate. To
join, simply dial 877-375-2160 and enter the code: 413 756 9413#. Cant
make the call? A recorded version will be posted to the NISO website
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/telecon/) within 48 hours.***
The Transfer project was initiated by UKSG in 2006 and the first version
of the Code was released in 2007 in response to issues identified by the
scholarly communications community when journal titles change platform
providers or owners. Publishers and platform providers have a vested
interest in ensuing that their content is easily accessible. The
Transfer Code provides them with the specifics of how they can make sure
that all of their stakeholders can continue to make the content
available with the least amount of disruption.
A very important achievement to date for the UKSG Transfer Working Group
was the creation of the Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS). This
public, searchable database helps publishers communicate journal
transfers and makes it easy for librarians and readers to be notified of
journal transfers and to search previous journal transfer alerts.
The Transfer Code of Practice is available on the NISO website from the
Transfer Standing Committees webpage: www.niso.org/workrooms/transfer/.
The ETAS alerting service continues to be available at:
http://etas.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/.
Read the full press release at:
http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=a0d43901fbfd7674d20a70dfee8c78f9014b9a86
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson_at_niso.org
301-654-2512
Received on Wed Feb 11 2015 - 03:01:41 EST