<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">We hope we're not too late to be added to your Midwinter
plans! NISO efforts will be described in several events in Philadelphia this
weekend...</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">NISO Standards Update</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Saturday, January 25, 2020, 1:00 - 2:30 PM</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 115-A</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's
current efforts, including standards, recommended practices and community
meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community. Working
group members will provide updates on projects newly underway or recently completed.
The meeting is open to all.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Offering updates are the following speakers:</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Content Platform Migrations - Kim Steinle, Duke University
Press</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Open Discovery Initiative - Laura Morse, Harvard University</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Transfer - Jennifer Bazeley, Yale University</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Z39.7 - Martha Kyrillidou, QualityMetrics</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">ISO/TC46 Update - Todd Carpenter, NISO</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Seamless Access - Jason Griffey, NISO</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">NISO Projects Activity - Nettie Lagace, NISO</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">SeamlessAccess.org: Putting "Recommended
Practices...from the Resource Access in the 21st Century (RA21) Project"
into practice</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Sunday, January 26 9:30 - 10:30 AM</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Location:
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 126-B</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Speakers: Todd Carpenter, NISO; Jason Griffey, NISO</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">In July 2020, SeamlessAccess.org will be launching a new,
privacy-preserving service to simplify Single Sign-On access to a wide range of
scholarly collaboration tools, information resources, and shared research
infrastructure. The next stage of the RA21 project is currently in Beta
testing, and this session will give a community update on the state of the
project. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">SeamlessAccess.org is a community-driven effort backed by
stakeholders from across the industry including NISO, ORCiD, the International
Association of STM Publishers, and organizations involved in managing global
Research & Education networks (Internet2, GÉANT). </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Over the next 7 months leading up to the launch,
SeamlessAccess is beta testing this new service with a variety of publishers
and institutions to understand integration scenarios, test specific use cases
(such as walk-in access), and finalize the implementation standards. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">In addition, SeamlessAccess is setting up several
cross-industry working groups to develop best practices and policies around the
use of Single Sign-On, including template contractual terms covering data
protection and configuration profiles to simply library implementation. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">This session will share the lessons learned from the beta
testing, the best practices and policies developed by these working groups, and
describe what libraries and librarians need to know in order to deliver a simpler,
privacy-preserving access experience for users.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Springer Nature Lunch & Learn: All About Seamless
Access</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Sunday, January 26, 2020, 12:15 PM</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Location: 1101 Arch Street Room 116, Philadelphia, PA 19107</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/springer-nature-lunch-learn-all-about-seamless-access-tickets-88896859901?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&sap-outbound-id=5B0E3AF9D4B9CFFC3F771D9923335052317D043F&mkt-key=00000000000000000000000000000000" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">More
information and to register</a> </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Speakers: Jason Griffey, NISO; Robert Boissy, Springer
Nature</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">For years the library community has struggled with problems
of providing convenient and seamless access to licensed online resources to
affiliated remote users. Now a new technology has emerged to replace the very
antiquated IP recognition technology that has a determined implementation group
consisting of collaboration between five organizations–GÉANT, Internet2, the
National Information Standards Organization (NISO), ORCID, and the
International Association of STM Publishers (STM). This technology is well
described at <a href="http://seamlessaccess.org">seamlessaccess.org</a>. As a new technology, this approach has been
questioned on grounds of individual privacy and tracking individual information
use. Come join us for lunch, learn more about seamless access, ask questions,
and consider for yourself if this technology makes sense for your campus:
providing proper privacy controls while promoting long term remote access for
affiliated users. Your input concerning the remote access problem and your
alternative solutions will be solicited.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">This a free event open to all attendees of the ALA Midwinter
2020 Conference. Lunch will be provided.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Improving the Content Platform Migration Process:
Creating a New NISO Recommended Practice, ALCTS PLVR (Publisher/Vendor Library
Relations) Committee Meeting </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Monday, January 27, 2020, 8:30 - 10:00 AM</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 126-A</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Speakers: Jennifer Bazeley, Yale University; Tom Beyer, The
Sheridan Group; Kimberly Steinle, Duke University Press</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">As online content is primarily made available via the Web,
content platforms are now a typical way to provide libraries and their patrons
access to scholarly content. Content platforms may be developed by publishers
themselves, or they may be licensed from third parties who specialize in this
type of software. Publishers continuously work to upgrade the platforms based
on feedback from customers and end-users, and in response to an ever-changing
internet and technology landscape. As a result, publishers will periodically
move their content from one platform to another. A migration that is well
planned, communicated and coordinated with customers, and well executed will
deliver the content on the new platform with no broken links, no loss of
functionality, no interruption in access, and no loss of customer information.
However, migrations can be complex with many things to track, from customer
holdings, to particularities of EZproxy and other authentication methodologies,
to user accounts, and security settings. A problem free migration is the
exception rather than the norm.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The goal for <a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/content-platform-migrations" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">this
NISO Working Group</a> is to create recommended practices around platform
migrations which would provide a standard process and recommendations to all
parties dealing with online content platforms, which would improve
communication both before, during and after migration. Streamlining the process
will benefit everyone in a smoother overall transition.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Have questions? Get in touch:</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">NISO</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Phone: +1.301.654.2512</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Email: <a href="mailto:nisohq@niso.org">nisohq@niso.org</a></font></p></div>