This Recommended Practice describes the work done by the NISO Institutional Identifier (I²) Working Group to define the requirements for a standard identifier for institutional identification in the supply chain...
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED by NISO RP-19-2020, Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery, published in June 2020. Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee web pages
Approved June 22, 2020. NISO constituted a new Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee following the approval of the ODI Recommended Practice. This standing committee has worked to facilitate the adoption...
Demand driven acquisition (DDA), also referred to as patron-driven acquisition, is a method used by libraries for collection development where monographs are purchased at their point of need when selected...
This report provides an evaluation and ranking of existing authentication methods, as they could be used in a metasearch environment, and recommends metasearch-related authentication best practices in today's environment.
Defines a core set of metadata elements that provide information about a result set at both the aggregate level and the individual record to provide better quality of information returned...
A minimum set of required citation level data elements has been identified to overcome the current lack of standardization in the way a citation is formatted in a record returned...
Outlines the actual and potential uses of web services in a library context and recommends a set of best practices in support of interoperable digital library services. Included in this...
These recommendations are the result of a three-year study performed by the NISO IOTA Working Group in which millions of OpenURLs were analyzed and a Completeness Index was developed as...
This recommended practice defines metadata indicators to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content. Humans and machines will be...
This recommended practice defines metadata indicators to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content. Humans and machines will be...
Serial publications represent a diverse content space ranging from popular magazines to scholarly journals, from content that is image-based to content that is text-based, from publications that have new content...
The Transfer project was initiated by UKSG in 2006 in response to issues identified by the scholarly communications community when journal titles change platform providers or owners. In the first...
The Transfer Code of Practice responds to the expressed needs of the scholarly journal community for consistent guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal content remains easily accessible by librarians...
Altmetrics are increasingly being used and discussed as an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment. The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics...
KBART Automation is a recommended practice that supports the timely exchange of accurate, library-specific KBART-formatted holdings reports between content providers’ access control systems and knowledge bases, allowing knowledge base-powered systems...
This document, NISO RP-27-2019, details the findings from the Resource Access in the 21st Century initiative. It provides recommendations for using federated identity as an access model and improving the...
The overarching goal of this recommended practice is to promote shared understanding and ongoing communication about the most fundamental e-book metadata elements among all the different types of stakeholders. This...
Approved June 26, 2020 Authors experience loss of time and effort when their manuscript is rejected by a journal and they have to repeat the submission process with one or...
Approved January 15, 2021. Reproducibility, the practice of validating prior research through the sharing of data and methods, is a topic that has been discussed within the scholarly research community...
For the purpose of this recommendation, ethics statements are understood to provide information on ethical considerations relating to the conduct of the research that a publication is reporting. These include...
Crossref convened a working group to produce a recommendation for best practice of funding tagging, which resulted in some change requests to the JATS DTD. These have now been made...
In order to differentiate cited preprint articles from journal articles we recommend that a value of “preprint” is used to populate the @publication-type attribute when citing the article as it...
