[nfais-l] NFAIS/NISO Draft on Supplemental Materials

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS and NISO Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice on
Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles


Philadelphia, PA & Baltimore, Md. - January 31, 2012 - The National
Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)  and the National
Information Standards Organization (NISO) have issued a new Recommended
Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business
Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment ending on
February 29, 2012. Although supplemental materials are increasingly being
added to journal articles, there is no recognized set of practices to guide
in the selection, delivery, discovery, or preservation of these materials.
To address this gap, NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored a working group to
establish best practices that would provide guidance to publishers and
authors for management of supplemental materials and would solve related
problems for librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository
administrators. The Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in
tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical
issues. The draft currently available for comment includes the
recommendations from the Business Working Group.

"Electronic media and the Web have changed the nature of journal articles
and what can be delivered along with the article," states Linda Beebe Senior
Director, PsycINFO, American Psychological Association, and Co-chair of the
Supplemental Journal Materials Business Working Group. "What hasn't changed
is that the journal article constitutes the scholarly record and today's
practices for handling them and their supporting materials must ensure that
the information is available to future researchers. What is published
outside the article as Supplemental Materials today may well be incorporated
into a new type of article tomorrow."

"A key aspect of these recommendations is the distinction between what we
call Integral Content, which is essential for the full understanding of the
journal article, and what we have designated Additional Content, which
provides relevant and useful expansion of the article's content," explains
Marie McVeigh, Director, JCR and Bibliographic Policy, Thomson Reuters, and
Co-chair of the Supplemental Journal Materials Business Working Group. "As
this Recommended Practice makes clear, Integral Content and Additional
Content are likely to be treated differently throughout the entire lifecycle
of a scientific article."

"The Working Group has identified best practices across a wide spectrum of
processes from selecting and editing supplemental material to hosting,
referencing, metadata, and preservation," describes Nettie Lagace, Associate
Program Director at NISO. "Ultimately, these practices all lead to ensuring
the long-term ability to discover and use these materials."

Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part
A: Business Policies and Practices is available for download from the NISO
website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental. Publishers, authors,
librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators
are all encouraged to review and comment on this draft.

About NFAIS

Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a membership organization of more than 60 of the
world's leading producers of databases and related information services,
information technology, and library services in the sciences, engineering,
social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. For more information
on NFAIS and its member organizations, contact Jill O'Neill, Director of
Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org
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nternet%20Files\Content.Outlook\KSG9XI89\jilloneill at nfais.org>  or
(215)-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS web site (www.nfais.org
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nternet%20Files\Content.Outlook\KSG9XI89\www.nfais.org> ).

 

About NISO

NISO 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 an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit
association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org
<http://www.niso.org/> .

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