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#. Can't 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 Committee's 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=a0d43901fbfd7674d20a70dfee8c78f901
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Cynthia Hodgson
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National Information Standards Organization
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