« The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) continues its Primer Series with the publication of Understanding Metadata. This comprehensive overview of information about an item’s creation, name, topic, features, and more updates NISO’s 2004 advice on the subject and follows on the Research Data Management…
« The National Information Standards Organization has published NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project.
This recommended practice on altmetrics, an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment, was developed by working groups…
« Interested participants, especially those with experience in library vendor software and/or use of APIs and REST and mobile technologies, are encouraged to contact NISO regarding working group formation.
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to modernize library-vendor technical…
« The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Data Quality Code of Conduct, NISO RP-25-201X-3, one output of a multi-pronged, multi-phase project that aims to build trust in and adoption of new methods of assessing impact. Further draft outputs from two other…
« With search functionality that emulates modern single search engines, discovery services like the Summon® discovery service help streamline searching for researchers. This more user friendly search increases expectations from the user to be able to easily retrieve more granular information (…)
« … The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper, The Future of Library Resource Discovery, written by independent consultant, speaker, and author Marshall Breeding. The white paper was commissioned by NISO’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) Topic Committee as part of its ongoing examination of areas in…
« Après la norme publiée par l’Afnor, d’application purement française, peut-être une norme internationale va-t-elle voir le jour. Une piste à suivre pour les questions d’e-réputation (cyber– ou web-réputation ou encore réputation numérique), notamment des entreprises, de leurs marques, produits et services (…)
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« … The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG announce that the Transfer Code of Practice will now be supported and maintained by NISO. The Code provides voluntary guidelines for publishers to follow when transferring journal titles between parties to ensure that the journal content remains easily accessible by…
« New filters and report attributes add to the SUSHI protocol’s flexibility in retrieving e-resource usage data
… The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a revision to the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014). The SUSHI standard defines an automated request and response model for…
« The latest issue of Information Standards Quarterly with a theme of Identity Management is now available on the NISO website in open access. Identity management is critical to ensuring that licensed or owned electronic content is available to those who have rights to it.
Libraries, publishers,…
