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The purpose of this document is to recommend practices about the physical movement of items during the delivery of the items to the requesting library and their return to the...
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Defines a practical implementation structure to be used in the creation of reports and services related to harvesting COUNTER reports using the NISO SUSHI Protocol.
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These recommended practices are intended to help the scholarly publishing community develop a more standardized approach to publishing what has become known as Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles in a...
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This Recommended Practice was developed in order to provide guidance on the presentation of e-journals--particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices--to publishers and...
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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...
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THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED by NISO RP-19-2020, Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery, published in June 2020.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
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 more subsequent journals. In...
