The Standards Tag Suite (STS) provides a common XML format that developers, publishers, and distributors of standards, including national standards bodies, regional and international standards bodies, and standards development organizations...
The Contributor Roles Taxonomy’s 14 roles and best practices represent a simple but comprehensive system that enables the range and nature of contributions to scholarly published output to be captured...
This document identifies and standardizes definitions and terminology in peer review practices in order to help align nomenclature as more publishers use open peer review models. A peer review terminology...
Guidance is presented for authors and editors preparing abstracts that represent the content of texts reporting on the results of experimental work or descriptive or discursive studies. Suggestions for the...
This standard outlines the elements, organization and design of scientific and technical reports, including guidance for uniform presentation of front and back matter, text, and visual and tabular matter in...
Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies. It focuses on controlled vocabularies that are used for the representation of content...
The basis for the MARC (Machine Readable Catalog) record, this standard specifies the requirements for a generalized interchange format that can be used for the communication of records in any...
In order to improve access to technical reports and assist in bringing order and uniformity to that form of technical literature, this standard specifies the format for a Standard Technical...
This standard provides rules, guidelines, and examples for the creation of bibliographic references to numerous types of print, audiovisual, and electronic materials, both published and unpublished, arranged in fifteen broad...
Defines the specific eye-legible information that should appear on the limited space available on microfiche so the fiche can be correctly identified and properly filed.The standard describes where to place...
This standard provides guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of documents and parts of documents. It deals with the principles of indexing regardless...
The Standard Address Number (SAN) is a seven-digit numeric identifier used to identify organizations and businesses interacting with the publishing industry (including book and serial manufacturers, libraries, publishers, etc.). Originally...
This standard defines a client/server based service and protocol for Information Retrieval. It specifies procedures and formats for a client to search a database provided by a server, retrieve database...
(Revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.53-1994) Abstract: A standardized 3-character code to indicate language in the exchange of information is defined. Codes are given for languages, contemporary and historical.
This standard identifies categories for basic library statistical data reported at the national level, and provides associated definitions of terms. In doing so it deals with the following areas: reporting...
Specifies display requirements for holdings statements for bibliographic items to promote consistency in the communication and exchange of holdings information. The standard applies to holdings statements for bibliographic items in...
This standard may save you money on purchases of steel, single-tier, freestanding shelving while ensuring that the shelving meets minimum performance requirements that can be verified by an independent testing...
Describes the basic requirements for user guides that accompany microform sets so microform publishers can provide the most useful and comprehensive guides to their publications. The standard gives practical information...
NOTE: This standard has been superseded by ANSI/NISO/LBC Z39.78-2000 (R2018) Library Binding. Binding is the first line of defense in library preservation and can be a major part of a...
The purpose of this Protocol Implementation Profile 1 (IMP1) is to specify details of implementation of the NISO Circulation Interchange Part 1: Protocol (NCIP). This IMP1 was developed primarily to...
