Please find enclosed the latest news from Transfer regarding the release of
the Code of Practice Version 3.0.
UKSG Transfer Working Group announces improvements to the Code of Practice
with release of Version 3.0.
The UKSG Transfer Working Group is pleased to announce the release of the
Transfer Code of Practice Version 3.0. The new version has a number of key
updates dealing with new content types, clarification of subscriber types,
journal URLs and redirects, nomenclature, and the timing and content of
communications. Over the last 18 months the Transfer Working Group has
revised and improved upon the previous version of the Code (released in
September 2008) and sought feedback from the community through a public
review process. Publishers will now be encouraged to follow the new version.
Those publishers who endorse Transfer's principles by agreeing to align
their procedures with the Code, and to apply them in practice, will be
considered 'Transfer Compliant'.
The Transfer Code of Practice is a set of voluntary guidelines for
publishers involved in any journal transfer. It covers difficult issues
including ongoing provision of access to online content, exchange of
subscriber lists, DOI and URL transfer, as well as perpetual access rights
to journal content. Transfer and the Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (
<http://etas.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/> http://etas.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/) were
developed in response to the expressed needs of the scholarly journal
community for consistent guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal
content remains easily accessible by librarians and readers when there is a
transfer between parties, and to ensure that the transfer process occurs
with minimum disruption.
If you would like more information about the Transfer Code of Practice,
please contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Transfer Working Group:
Alison Mitchell: [log in to unmask]
Elizabeth Winter: [log in to unmask]
Please see http://www.uksg.org/transfer
Tracy Gardner
UKSG Marketing Associate
www.uksg.org
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