The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the release of a draft revision to the Transfer Code of Practice, a NISO Recommended Practice, for public comment. Transfer contains guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal content that is transferred between parties remains easily accessible to librarians and readers and that the transfer process occurs with minimum disruption to all stakeholders. The recommendations include steps for better organisation, communication, data transfer, and access to content, and enable a common understanding of the overall process between transferring and receiving publishers and subscribing libraries.
The NISO Transfer Standing Committee consists of publishers, librarians, and other experts who are responsible for the content of the Code of Practice and who coordinate educational programs, presentations, and other support efforts to ensure that Transfer is well-understood by its target audiences. Publishers are asked to endorse the Code and to abide by its principles wherever it is commercially reasonable to do so. An important element of Transfer is the Transfer Alerting Service (TAS), which notifies the community about journal moves and includes a searchable database archive to help with local record-keeping.
The NISO Transfer Code of Practice is available for public comment from September 5 to October 19, 2018. Interested parties may visit the NISO project page at https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/transfer, to download the draft document or submit comments.
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