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<h1>NFAIS and NISO Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice on
Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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 <i>Online
Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices</i>
(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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Recommended
Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business
Policies and Practices </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>is available for download from the NISO website at: <a
href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental">www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental</a>.
Publishers, authors, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and
repository administrators are all encouraged to review and comment on this
draft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About
NFAIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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 (<a
href="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Bonnie\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\KSG9XI89\jilloneill@nfais.org">jilloneill@nfais.org</a>
or (215)-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS web site (<a
href="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Bonnie\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\KSG9XI89\www.nfais.org">www.nfais.org</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About
NISO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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: <a href="http://www.niso.org/">www.niso.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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