[Eril-l] NISO Publishes Revision of the Transfer Code of Practice (Version 5.0)

[Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list]

**Apologies for cross posting**

Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 2026: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce the publication of the revised
Transfer Code of Practice (Version 5.0), NISO RP-24-2026.

The Transfer Code of Practice is a NISO Recommended Practice that ensures
continuing access to journals when titles are transferred from one
publisher to another. Compliance with the code not only helps publishers
make journal content easily accessible to librarians and readers when there
is a transfer between parties, but also enables the transfer process to
occur with minimum disruption to manuscript submission and production
processes. This revision addresses community needs around the transfer of
open access titles and refines language to provide more clarity to readers.



In addition to reviewing and revising the Transfer Code of Practice, the
Transfer Standing Committee maintains the Transfer Alerting Service, which
is hosted by the ISSN Centre and facilitates communication about journal
title transfers. Over 90 publishers have endorsed the Transfer Code of
Practice since it was first established as a NISO Recommended Practice in
2015.

“This has been a community effort with representatives from major
publishers, societies, university presses, libraries, consortia, databases,
serials resources, and consultants,” stated Sophia Anderton, Chief
Executive, BJU International and co-chair of the Transfer Standing
Committee. “We hope that the new version of the Code will support the whole
of the research community so that there is a seamless service when journals
transfer between publishers,” added Émilie LaVallée-Funston, Head of
Research Support (OA), Library Services, University of Bristol and co-chair
of the Transfer Standing Committee.

“The Transfer Code of Practice has become an indispensable tool in
maintaining user access to content when it moves from one publisher to
another,” said Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. “We thank the
members of the Transfer Standing Committee for their efforts to ensure it
continues to meet the evolving needs of readers, authors, librarians, and
publishers.”

The Transfer Code of Practice Version 5.0 is freely available on the NISO
website: 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.



NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore. MD 21211
Phone: 301.654.2512
E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.eril-l.org/pipermail/eril-l-eril-l.org/attachments/20260331/8d93fdbd/attachment.htm>