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NISO November Webinar: The Case of the Disappearing Journal

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NISO will be holding a webinar on November 10, 2010 (1:00 -

2:30 p.m.
Eastern time) on The Case of the Disappearing Journal: Solving
the Title
Transfer and Online Display Mystery

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Have you ever searched the Web for a journal that you thought
ought to be
available online but not found it, only to learn later that it was
available
all along? Perhaps you've linked out from your library’s online
catalog or
A-Z e-journal list only to find that the title you expected was
no longer
available at the site linked to. Or maybe you have had occasion
to search a
database for a journal using an ISSN and ended up surprised
with and
confused by the results.

How journals are presented online, how they are identified,

and how they are
transferred from one publisher or platform provider to another
can leave
researchers, students -- and even librarians -- confused and
frustrated.
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This webinar will discuss several initiatives that are designed

to alleviate
this problem.

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

E-Journal Presentation & Identification: Developing

Recommended Practices
Regina Reynolds, ISSN Coordinator, Library of Congress
The NISO Working Group on Recommended Practices for the
Presentation and
Identification of E-Journals is creating guidelines to help
publishers,
providers, and others in the journal supply chain offer
consistent and
proper identification of journal content that is mounted online.
For
pre-reading about this initiative, read the article "In Search of
Best
Practices for Presentation of E-Journals."
<http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2009/v21n2/> by Regina
Reynolds and
Cindy Hepfer (ISQ 21.1 [Spring 2009): 18-24).

ISSN-L: The Linking ISSN

Françoise Pelle, Director, ISSN International Center
The revised ISSN standard issued in 2007 launched the
concept of the Linking
ISSN (ISSN-L), which collocates or links among different media
versions of a
continuing resource. For more information, see “What is an
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ISSN-L.”
<http://www.issn.org/2-22637-What-is-an-ISSN-L.php>

xISSN Web Service: Exposing Serials Identifiers, Relationships,

and Metadata
Karen Coombs, Product Manager, OCLC Developer Network •
Biography
xISSN is a web service provide by OCLC which provides
developers and
librarians with new ways to use and examine serials metadata
from WorldCat
and other sources. xISSN can help with tracing a changing title
of a
journal, knowing which form of a serial an ISSN represented,
seeing all the
ISSN associated with a journal, determining the peer review
status of a
journal, or knowing the feed for a journal Table of Contents
and more. See
xISSN, OCLC Web Service for an overview.
<http://www.oclc.org/xissn/default.htm>

Project Transfer: Publisher Guidelines for the Transfer of

Journal Content
Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef
The UKSG Transfer Code of Practice, now on version 2,
provides guidelines to
help publishers ensure that journal content remains easily
accessible when
it is moved between two parties. For more information see the
Project
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Transfer webpage. <http://www.uksg.org/transfer>

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (defined as access for one computer).

NISO and
NASIG members may register at a discounted rate. A student
discount is also
available. Can't make it on the scheduled date or time?
Registrants receive
access to the recorded version for one year, which can be
viewed at your
convenience.
For more information or to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010/journal/