[Asis-standards] Fwd: NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Presentation and Identification of E-Journals

[Mark Needleman]

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Mark


*NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Presentation and Identification
of E-Journals*

*/Recommendations Ensure Long-Term Online Accessibility to Scholarly
Journals Even After Title and Publisher Changes/*

Baltimore, MD – March 27, 2013 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Recommended
Practice: /PIE-J: Presentation & Identification of E-Journals/ (NISO
RP-16-2013). This Recommended Practice was developed 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 platform providers, as well as to solve some long-standing concerns
of serials, collections, and electronic resources librarians. In
addition to the recommendations, the document includes extensive
examples of good practices using screenshots from various publishers’
online journals platforms; a discussion of helpful resources for
obtaining title history and ISSN information; an overview of the
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and key points for using it
correctly; an explanation of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®), the
registration agency CrossRef, and tips on using DOIs for journal title
management; and a review of related standards and recommended practices.

“Citations form the basis for much scholarly research. Unless journal
websites accurately and uniformly list all the titles under which
content was published, user access to desired content is considerably
diminished,” explains Cindy Hepfer, Continuing E-Resource Management and
Cataloging Librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo and
Co-chair of the NISO PIE-J Working Group. “For example, many e-journal
publishers and aggregators now place digitized content originally
published under an earlier title on the website for the current title,
using the current ISSN, thus seriously impeding the researcher’s ability
to find or identify the content being sought. The PIE-J project was
initiated to address these issues.”

“The publishers and providers of e-journals take great pride in the
diverse designs of their websites,” states Bob Boissy, Manager, Account
Development & Strategic Alliances at Springer and Co-chair of the NISO
PIE-J Working Group. “Yet how these websites present, identify, and link
together the publications that they display can make the end users’ task
of discovering articles and accessing them easy, frustrating, or
completely fruitless. Application of the PIE-J recommended practice
guidelines will result in improved discovery and access that will
benefit researchers, authors, librarians, online providers, and publishers.”

“The PIE-J Recommended Practice provides a clear and succinct list of
guidelines that publishers can easily implement to facilitate long-term
access to their e-journal content,” declares Todd Carpenter, NISO
Executive Director. “This constructive advice will aid publishers with
the presentation of born-digital content as well as supporting the
continued digitization of content from journals originally published
only in print.”

The PIE-J draft Recommended Practice and a brochure summarizing the
recommendations are available from the NISO PIE-J workroom website at:
www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/ <http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/>.