Serial Subscriptions
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Serial Subscriptions


"Recently, NISO, the National Information Standards Organization and DLF, the Digital Library Federation announced the undertaking of a two month study to evaluate the current use and potential of standards to facilitate the exchange of serials subscription information for both print and electronic resources. NISO would like to know more about how libraries gather, use and share subscription information.

A questionnaire for libraries has been placed on the NISO web site. Because NISO supports the development of standards for the information community based on consensus among constitiuents, we are grateful for the interest of libraries who benefit so much from these standards.

Please take some time to visit the NISO web site and fill out the survey which can be found at: http://www.niso.org/survey/serials.cfm. The survey will close on May 30. A final report on this study, including recommendations, will be on the NISO website in late June."--from an e-mail received 4/26/02




- Niso Newsline
The November issue of the NISO Newsline is on available.NISO's had a "bumper year" with a number of key standards reaching completion - this month we are reaping the harvest with the release of the "new" Z39.19, now titled Controlled Vocabularies....

- Niso
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- Niso
A while back NISO found that a patent was held on part of the OpenURL standard under development. As a result of that they have released the white paper Patents and Open Standards by Priscilla Caplan.This is not yet available as a link from their page...

- Serials Subscription Information
NISO has released a white paper on The Exchange of Serials Subscription Information.NISO commissioned this White Paper to help the organization think through the current needs and prospects for successfully developing a standard format for exchanging...

- Serial Subscription Information
Aggregation of serials in databases has created problems for the description and access to serial titles for libraries. NIOS has been studying the problem and has a description of the problem in the white paper The Exchange of Serials Subscription Information...



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