Although this does not address the issue of draft standards (on which
today's discussion has focused) here is good news on full published NISO
standards.


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Subject: NISO standards now available for downloading

The following from Pat Harris will be of interest to all users and
potential users of NISO standards.

I'm delighted to see that NISO has been able to take this step, which
I believe will make their standards much more accessible not only to
system developers but also to the educational community, where
standards are such an important component but historically have been
difficult to incorporate into teaching and research due to access
constraints. Congratulations, NISO!

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI


Dear NISO Members,

All NISO standards and technical reports can now be downloaded as pdf
files for no charge from the NISO website.

>From the NISO homepage (<http://www/niso.org>http://www/niso.org) click on
the
NISO Press
icon, and then click on Standards, Books and Software. You can search
for the title you want or review a list of all the approved and
published NISO standards and technical reports.

To my knowledge NISO is one of the few (if not the only) accredited
standards developer in the U.S. making its standards freely available
on the web. Your support as a Voting Member is making this possible.
Thank you for allowing NISO to take the lead in supporting the widest
possible distribution of our publications.

NISO is continuing its print publication program and will continue to
sell the hardcopy standards.

Please share this good news with your staff, your standards
committees, colleagues, clients and customers.

Pat Harris
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