The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of the Fall 2011 issue of the Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) magazine with a special issue theme of Standards Implementation Benefits.
In the issue's main feature article, Mary Jackson (Auto-Graphics, Inc.) quantifies the productivity benefits of implementing the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) standard and illustrates the savings with case studies and before and after workflow comparisons. Gary Van Overborg, John Milligan and Michael Lee (Scholarly iQ) illustrate how their company, in its role as an intermediary between publishers and libraries in providing usage statistics, was able to improve services to both through their implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) protocol.
Mary E. Marshall (ADC) describes her experience with the American arm of an international publisher as an early implementer of SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) to streamline the journal licensing process. This is said to have saved time and costs for both the publisher and their library customers. John Sack (HighWire) provides an opinion piece to dispel the myth that standards prevent innovation, but explains how instead the two concepts can work together for the benefit of each.
ISQ is available in open access in electronic format on the NISO website. Both the entire issue and individual articles may be freely downloaded. Print copies are available by subscription and as print on demand.
ISQ is NISO's print and electronic magazine for communicating standards-based technology and best practices in library, publishing and information technology, particularly where these three areas overlap. The publication reports on the progress of active developments and also on implementations, case studies and best practices that show potentially replicable efforts.
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