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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>NISO and UKSG Announce 30 More Publishers
Endorse KBART</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>KBART Phase II Now Focusing on Consortia,
Open Access and E-Books</span></font></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and
UKSG are pleased to announce that another 30 publishers are now able to supply
metadata that conforms to the recommended practice, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools</span></i> (NISO
RP-9-2010). Endorsement of this publication, which contains practical
recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between content
providers and knowledge base developers, indicates that the format and content
of data supplied by the publisher to knowledge bases and related tools conform
to the KBART recommendations.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The newest endorsers are the <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>American Psychological Association</span></b>, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Edinburgh University Press</span></b> and the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Scitation</span></b><sup>®</sup> platform, which
delivers metadata on behalf of 28 society publishers:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Acoustical Society of </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ACS</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Rubber Division</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>AHS International - The Vertical Flight Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Accounting Association</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Association of Physicists in Medicine</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Association of Physics Teachers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Astronomical Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Society of Civil Engineers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Society of Mechanical Engineers International</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>AVS</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: Science & Technology of
Materials, Interfaces, and Processing</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Earthquake Engineering Research Institute</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>International Centre for Diffraction Data</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IS&T - The Society for Imaging Science &
Technology</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Laser Institute of </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>NACE International</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>National Association of Geoscience Teachers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Physics Essays Publication</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>SIAM</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>SPIE</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Electrochemical Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Institute</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Noise</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Control
Engineering</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Institution of Engineering and Technology</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Society for Information Display</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Society of Exploration Geophysicists</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Society of Rheology</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Tire Society</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“By providing a common set of metadata requirements
for the information supply chain, KBART helps to reduce the administrative
burden of metadata management, and ensures greater visibility and usage of
content,” explains Terry Hulbert, Director of Business Development at the
American Institute of Physics, which developed the Scitation® platform.
“In a climate of budget cuts and cancellations, it’s an important
way for our publisher partners to support their customers and differentiate
their content.”</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“The joint UKSG/NISO KBART Working Group is now
focusing on Phase II of the project, which will tackle some of the more
advanced issues with knowledge bases in the supply chain,” states Sarah
Pearson, co-chair of the working group. “The Phase II recommendations
will outline additional steps that can be taken by all stakeholders to further
improve the library user’s experience when using link resolvers and their
related knowledge bases, and will specifically address consortia-specific
metadata transfer, open access metadata, and enhanced support for e-books and
conference proceedings.”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information on KBART and the current Phase II work,
visit <a href="http://www.uksg.org/kbart" target="_blank">www.uksg.org/kbart</a>or <a
href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart" target="_blank">www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart</a>.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>About KBART</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) was set up following the 2007
publication of the UKSG research report "Link Resolvers and the Serials
Supply Chain." Central to the efficient operation of the OpenURL is the
knowledge base, which consists of data supplied by content providers including
publishers. The report found that a lack of awareness of the OpenURLs
capabilities and requirements is impacting the quality and timeliness of data
provided to populate knowledge bases, and thus undermining the potential of the
sophisticated OpenURL technology. UKSG partnered with NISO to commission the
KBART Working Group to develop guidelines for best practice and provide
educational materials. The core NISO/UKSG Working Group consists of
representatives from libraries, knowledge base developers, publishers,
intermediaries and other content providers, and is supported by a monitoring
group of interested parties. Its Phase I report, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools</span></i> (<a
href="http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/#kbart" target="_blank">NISO
RP-9-2010</a>), and guidelines have been widely reviewed and tested by a wider
group of information supply chain stakeholders. For more information, visit <a
href="http://www.uksg.org/kbart" target="_blank">www.uksg.org/kbart</a> or<a
href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart" target="_blank">www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart</a>. <br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>About NISO</span></b><br>
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 (</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ANSI</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>). More information
about NISO is available on its website: <a href="http://www.niso.org/"
target="_blank">www.niso.org</a>. For more information please contact NISO at <a
href="tel:%28301%29%20654-2512" target="_blank">(301) 654-2512</a> or via
e-mail at <a href="mailto:nisohq@niso.org" target="_blank">nisohq@niso.org</a>.<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>About UKSG</span></b><br>
UKSG exists to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of
ideas on scholarly communication. It spans the wide range of interests and
activities of the extended scholarly information community of librarians,
publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. In a dynamic environment,
UKSG works to:</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>facilitate community integration, networking,
discussion and exchange of ideas,</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>improve members' knowledge of the scholarly information
sector and support skills development,</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>stimulate research and collaborative initiatives,
encourage innovation and promote standards for good practice, and</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>disseminate news, information and publications, and
raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.</span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information, please visit the UKSG website, <a
href="http://www.uksg.org/" target="_blank">www.uksg.org</a>.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jill O'Neill</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Director, Planning & Communication</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>NFAIS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(v) 215-893-1561</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(email) jilloneill@nfais.org</span></font></p>
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