The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication will be moving to open access (OA) in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public.
ISQ has reportedly undergone a significant transformation over the past three years as it moved from a newsletter to a full-colour publication. The publication seeks to educate and inform its readers on standards, present practical and replicable implementations of standards-based technologies and best practices, and identify areas where standards could help to solve problems.
The print version of ISQ will still be available by subscription or free to NISO members who opt-in to receive it in print. This approach, combined with the open access of the electronic version, will reduce the environmental impact and costs of print publishing while increasing the accessibility of the publication to everyone in the NISO community and in related standards and technology arenas.
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