Best Practices for Presentation of E-Journals
Kathy KlempererProject ManagerHarrassowitz
Andrea Twiss-BrooksCo-Director, Science Libraries
University of Chicago
Background and problem definition
Other initiatives, standards and proposals
Developing a set of best practice guidelines
Discussion and feedback
Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) Spring 2009, Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 18-24http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2009/v21n2
Retention of the original title and citation information is essential for users trying to access the original
full text of journal articles.
Defining the problem - librariesSince 1971, most U.S. libraries have followed cataloging rules that require each significantly changed title of a journal to be cataloged as a separate record; the result is that libraries effectively consider a changed title to have become a new journal for identification, control, and inventory purposes.
Often the new title has a different ISSN from the old title
Defining the problem - publishersSometimes editors feel the content is more marketable if it is presented under the current title
Placing all content for journal backfiles or archives under the current title may seem to product managers and website designers to be a simpler and more elegant arrangement than breaking the content into the various pieces that place it under (multiple) changed titles
Not all content providers employ librarians, and not all those who make decisions about how to present their content think to consult librarians.
Defining the problem - technologyMany academic institutions rely on link servers/link resolvers to connect users with journal articles by using the metadata in Open URLs (ANSI/NISO Z39.88). If the source citation (as represented by OpenURL metadata) and the knowledgebase identify the same content with different journal titles and ISSN, then the corresponding target links will not be offered to the user. Content that a library has paid for will not be served to a researcher, even though that content has been licensed and should be available to its users.
Researchers can also be confused by seeing one title in a reference and landing on a page that looks like an entirely different title
Finding a solution
Create a set of best practice guidelines for online presentation of journal titles, title
histories and other information. Any set of guidelines needs to take into account not
only librarians’ and users’ needs, but also the reasonableness of the guidelines to
publishers to insure adequate buy in by all stakeholders.
NISO PIE-J representation Taylor & Francis Harrassowitz Serials Solutions IEEE JSTOR/Ithaka Sage EBSCO Hein Publishing Technology
APALibrary of Congress
(CONSER, ISSN)National Library of MedicineCranfield U. Press (UK)University of WashingtonUniversity of Chicago UCLA
Best Practices for Ejournals (Ann Ercelawn)www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/bestpractices.htm
Journal Title Display and Citation Practices (Hawkins, et al)www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909530893~db=all~order=page
KBART Working Groupwww.niso.org/workrooms/kbart
ISSN International Centrewww.issn.org
NISO /NFAIS workshop Best Practices for Electronic Journals (report)www.niso.org/news/events/niso/past/ejournalswkshp6/
OpenURL standard (ANSI /NISO Z39.88)www.niso.org/standards/z39-88-2004/
SERIALST (Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum)www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html
Reynolds, R. R. and Hepfer, C. “In Search of Best Practices in the Presentation of E-Journals,” Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ), Spring 2009, v. 21, no. 2 , pp. 18-24http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2009/v21n2