NISO/ALPSP Working Group on Versions of Journal Articles

The Transfer project was initiated by UKSG in 2006 in response to issues identified by the scholarly communications community when journal titles change platform providers or owners. In the first ten months of 2006, EBSCO logged over 5,000 titles that changed publishers. Such transfers can negatively impact libraries, intermediaries (such as serials subscription agents, link resolver administrators, and vendors of large-scale discovery systems), and readers. Often the journal would seem to disappear and links from existing information systems to the content would break, even though the title was still being published.

A Working Group was formed with representatives from libraries, publishers, intermediaries such as periodicals subscription agents and other parties relevant to the scholarly journal supply chain. The Transfer Working Group’s objective was to develop procedures and policies surrounding the transfer of journals between publishers so that the movement of journals causes the minimum disruption to stakeholders and adheres to an agreed-upon Code of Practice.

NOTE: This standard has been superseded by ANSI/NISO/LBC Z39.78-2000 (R2018) Library Binding.

Binding is the first line of defense in library preservation and can be a major part of a library's preservation budget. Developed jointly by NISO and the Library Binding Institute, this ANSI/NISO/LBI standard describes the technical specifications and materials to use for first-time hardcover binding of serials and paperbound books intended for the rigors of library use. It also covers rebinding of hardcover books and serials. Following this standard will give you volumes that are sturdy, durable and flexible.

Specifies display requirements for holdings statements for bibliographic items to promote consistency in the communication and exchange of holdings information. The standard applies to holdings statements for bibliographic items in any physical or electronic medium. It may be applied to electronic resources available to an institution, either under its control, or available under other arrangements. It applies to both manual and automated means of recording holdings. This standard replaces both the Serial Holdings Standard Z39.44 and the Non-Serials Holdings standard Z39.57. The 2006 edition is a maintenance revision of the 1999 standard. The changes are minor updates, corrections, or editorial clarifications based on comments received from the systematic review of the standard.

This standard supersedes (combines) the following two NISO standards: Z39.44 - 1986 Serial Holdings Statement Z39.57 - 1989 Holding Statements for Non-Serial Items Z39.44 superseded the following withdrawn standard: Z39.42 - 1980 Serial Holdings Statements at the Summary Level.