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<p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>NFAIS and NISO Publish
Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>Philadelphia, PA & Baltimore, MD – February 4,
2013 –The National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have published a new
Recommended Practice on <i>Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials</i>
(NISO RP-15-2013). Supplemental materials are increasingly being added to
journal articles, but until now there has been no recognized set of practices
to guide in the selection, delivery, discovery, and preservation of these
materials. To address this gap, NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored an initiative
to establish best practices that would provide guidance to publishers and
authors for management of supplemental materials and would address related
problems for librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository
administrators. The Supplemental Materials project involved two teams working
in tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical
issues. This new publication is the combined outcome of the two groups’
work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>“A key aspect of these recommendations is the
distinction between what we define as Integral Content, which is content that
is <a name="_GoBack"></a>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 Business Working Group. “As this Recommended Practice makes
clear,” states Linda Beebe, co-chair of the Business Working Group who
recently retired as Senior Director, PsycINFO, American Psychological
Association, “Integral Content and Additional Content are likely to be
treated differently throughout the entire lifecycle of a scientific
article.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>“Ensuring effective access, use, and long-term
preservation of supplemental materials to journal articles requires up-front
planning about persistent identifiers, metadata, file formats, and
packaging,” explained David Martinsen, Senior Scientist, Digital
Publishing Strategy, American Chemical Society, and co-chair of the Technical
Working Group. “These technical recommendations for handling of supplemental
materials simplify much of that planning and decision-making, and will also
ensure a standardized approach across publishers and publishing
platforms,” affirmed Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman, Content Technology
Architect with OSA - The Optical Society, and co-chair of the Technical Working
Group.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>“Supplemental materials are appearing with
increasing frequency and can no longer be effectively managed on a case-by-case
basis,” Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director, stated. “This new
Recommended Practice will provide a consistent approach for publishers to use
in handling these materials. Ensuring discovery, access, and preservation of
these materials is in the interests not only of the authors and publishers, but
also of the library community and end users.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>“Electronic media and the Web have changed the
nature of journal articles and what can be delivered along with the
article,” asserts Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director. “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></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>The Recommended Practice on <i>Online Supplemental Journal
Article Materials</i>, a metadata schema, a tag library, and tagged examples
are available from the NISO website at: <a
href="http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental">www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b>About NFAIS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>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@nfais.org or
(215)-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS web site (<a href="www.nfais.org">www.nfais.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b>About NISO<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText>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="www.niso.org">www.niso.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><b>For More Information, Contact:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style='line-height:115%'><i><span lang=FR>Nettie Lagace<br>
NISO<br>
Phone: 301-654-2512<br>
Email : nlagace at niso.org<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style='line-height:115%'><i>Jill O'Neill<br>
NFAIS<br>
Phone: 215-893-1561<br>
E-mail: jilloneill at nfais.org<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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