<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">January 24, 2020</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">: The </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/odi"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI)
Standing Committee</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> invites feedback on </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/odi"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">proposed revisions to its Recommended
Practice</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, originally published in 2014 as NISO RP-19-2014 <i>Open
Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery</i>. Librarians,
publishers, vendors, and others who are interested in how content is included
in discovery systems are encouraged to share their comments by March 9, 2020.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Index-based
discovery services are now established as one of the main channels through
which users discover and access content. NISO created ODI in 2012, and
published the original ODI Recommended Practice in 2014, to provide technical
recommendations for the exchange of data, including data formats, methods of
delivery, usage reporting, frequency of updates, and rights of use. It is
intended to provide a way of assessing content providers’ participation in
discovery services and to ensure fair and unbiased indexing and linking. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Standing
Committee co-chair, Rachel Kessler (Product Manager, ProQuest), commented,
“Members of the ODI Standing Committee — representing all stakeholder
communities — have been working hard for the past few years to socialize and
support the original NISO Recommended Practice, which has enjoyed wide
implementation. More recently we conducted extensive community surveys to
gather additional data about the current content discovery environment, which
has helped us determine appropriate updates in our “Phase 2” to benefit even
more organizations.” </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">The
second co-chair, Laura Morse (Director, Library Systems & Support, Harvard
University), added, ”In the process of updating the Recommended Practice, we
have added material that affects content providers, discovery service
providers, and libraries.  At a high level, we hope the changes support
better metadata sharing (including information about open access material) and
record display, improved tracking of usage statistics and authentication
mechanisms, as well as providing advice on systems, training, and communication
for libraries that configure and upgrade their discovery systems.  We also
address some areas that were outside the scope of the original Recommended
Practice, such as more detailed treatment of Abstracting and Indexing (A&I)
content products. We warmly invite anyone who is concerned about the
discoverability of licensed content in discovery systems to share their
feedback on this second wave of ODI recommendations, which have been developed
— with NISO’s help — by and for the community.”</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">NISO's
Associate Executive Director, Nettie Lagace, noted, "All stakeholders in
the indexed discovery ecosystem — libraries, content providers, and discovery
providers — expect high levels of service from each other. The work of the ODI
Standing Committee in updating these best practice recommendations, under Rachel
and Laura’s leadership, helps to communicate these expectations and support the
realization of excellent processes, to ensure their continued value to the
information community. Our thanks to everyone involved; the Standing Committee
is looking forward to reviewing feedback.” </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">The draft Recommended Practice, with commenting
capability, is available at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/odi"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/odi</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">from
January 24 through March 9.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br></span></p><div>_____________________</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_-1907872969729104691gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b8f0e49-7fff-b46a-82cb-cde2731d419d"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>About NISO</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><br></b></span></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-db7fbdd7-7fff-e836-27dc-9a79539f4508"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 (<a href="https://niso.org">https://niso.org</a>).</span></span></div></div>