[Eril-l] NISO Releases Draft Revised Transfer Code of Practice for Public Comment

[NISO Announce]

*NISO Releases Draft Revised Transfer Code of Practice for Public Comment*

Baltimore, MD - September 5, 2018 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announces the release of a draft revision to the Transfer
Code of Practice, a NISO Recommended Practice
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/transfer>, for public comment.
Transfer contains guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal content
that is transferred between parties remains easily accessible to librarians
and readers and that the transfer process occurs with minimum disruption to
all stakeholders.  These recommendations include steps for better
organization, communication, data transfer, and access to content, and
enable a common understanding of the overall process between transferring
and receiving publishers and subscribing libraries.

The NISO Transfer Standing Committee consists of publishers, librarians,
and other experts who are responsible for the content of the Code of
Practice and who coordinate educational programs, presentations, and other
support efforts to ensure that Transfer is well-understood by its target
audiences. Publishers are asked to endorse the Code and to abide by its
principles wherever it is commercially reasonable to do so. An important
element of Transfer is the Transfer Alerting Service (TAS), which notifies
the community about journal moves and includes a searchable database
archive to help with local record-keeping.

"This new revision of the Code of Practice seeks to address feedback
received since the release of version 3.0 in 2014 by UKSG, Transfer's
original sponsor," notes James Phillpotts of Oxford University Press and
co-chair of the Transfer Standing Committee.  "The intent is to ensure that
the Code continues to address current considerations in the scholarly
journals community, and sets out publisher responsibilities as clearly as
possible.  In particular, updates have been made to clarify and address
categories of paid customer beyond subscribers, open access considerations,
perpetual access responsibilities, licensing information, and further
revisions to handling journal URLs and redirects."

"NISO is a proud sponsor of the Transfer Standing Committee," comments
Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "We are pleased that
we can provide a forum for varied stakeholders to discuss journal transfer
issues and help with the process for publication of recommendations that we
hope will be useful to everyone. During this public comment period, the
Standing Committee members look forward to receiving input from community
members that they can address before NISO publishes the final updated
Transfer Code of Practice later this year."

*The NISO Transfer Code of Practice is available for public comment from
September 5 to October 19, 2018. *To download the draft document or submit
comments, visit the NISO project page at https://www.niso.org/
standards-committees/transfer. All input is welcome.

*About NISO*
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website <https://www.niso.org>.
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