[Eril-l] NISO’s Draft Revision of the Transfer Code of Practice Now Open for Public Comment

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Baltimore, Maryland, March 18, 2025: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft revision of the Transfer
Code of Practice (NISO RP-24-202X) is now available for public comment
through May 2, 2025, at the project web page,
https://niso.org/standards-committees/transfer.

The Transfer Code of Practice is a NISO Recommended Practice to ensure
continuing access to journals when titles transfer from one publisher to
another. Compliance with the code helps publishers make journal content
easily accessible to librarians and readers when there is a transfer
between parties. It also enables the transfer process to occur with minimum
disruption to manuscript submission and production processes. Over 90
publishers have endorsed the Transfer Code of Practice since it was first
established as a NISO Recommended Practice in 2015.

The Transfer Standing Committee, composed of librarians, publishers, and
other experts, maintains the Transfer Alerting Service, hosted by the ISSN
Centre, that facilitates communication about journal title transfers
between publishers. The Standing Committee is also charged with reviewing
the Recommended Practice and recommending revisions. This latest draft
revision addresses community needs around the transfer of open access
titles and refines language to provide more clarity to readers.

“This revision incorporates feedback we received regarding open access
content, ensuring that the Code aligns more closely with current practices
and expectations,” notes Sophia Anderton, Chief Executive, BJU
International and co-chair of the Transfer Standing Committee. “We have
also sought to clarify language throughout the document to ensure that
readers have precise language for more effective implementation of the
Code,” adds Émilie Lavallée-Funston, Contracts and Publications Licences
Officer at the University of Stirling and co-chair of the Transfer Standing
Committee.

NISO’s Standards Program Manager Keondra Bailey adds, “NISO extends its
sincere appreciation to the Transfer Standing Committee for their dedicated
efforts in updating the Transfer Code of Practice. We urge the community to
actively share their insights and feedback, as their contributions are
vital to shaping the future of this Recommended Practice."

The draft Recommended Practice is available for comment through May 2, 2025
<https://niso.org/standards-committees/transfer>.

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.



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