[Eril-l] NISO’s Draft Revision of the Journal Article Version (JAV) Recommended Practice Now Open for Public Comment

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Baltimore, May 23, 2024: The National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) announced today that its draft revision of the Journal Article
Version (JAV) Recommended Practice is open for public comment through July
7, 2024, at the project web page
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/jav-revision>.

First published in 2008, the JAV Recommended Practice was developed to
describe different versions of online scholarly content. Since then,
publishing practices have continued to evolve, and with changes such as the
rapid growth in preprint publications, the concept of a single version of
record has become less relevant. Questions about citations for different
versions and version labeling, for example, have highlighted the need for
standardization of terms as well as recommendations for how to manage,
track, and index multiple versions. The NISO working group was formed to
address these challenges and develop a revised JAV Recommended Practice
including an appendix with multiple examples illustrating a variety of use
cases for those looking for guidance.

“We are pleased to present the revised Recommended Practice for public
comment,” said Working Group Co-chair Clay Burgett (Assistant Director of
Application Technology, ACS Publications). “We hope it will prove useful to
a variety of stakeholders in scholarly communications and look forward to
incorporating feedback from the wider community.” Working group Co-chairs
Patrick Hargitt (Senior Director of Product Management, Atypon) and Michael
Nason (Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of New
Brunswick) noted the determined efforts of the working group members to
collaboratively address the problems and questions of a constantly evolving
publishing landscape and the group’s eagerness to put its work product to a
public review.

“NISO appreciates the service of the JAV Revision Working Group,” said
Nettie Lagace, NISO Assistant Executive Director. “A lot has changed since
2008, and these essential revisions will help to ensure that the JAV
Recommended Practice remains current and meets the needs of creators and
consumers of scholarly articles. We look forward to further input and
opinions from the community, which will strengthen the final Recommended
Practice.”

The draft Recommended Practice is available for comment through July 7, 2024
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/jav-revision>.

*About NISO *
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with 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 life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.

NISO

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Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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