[jats-list] NISO and NFAIS issue draft for public comment of Recommended Business Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles

[Sasha Schwarzman <SSchwarzman@xxxxxxx>]

Baltimore, MD & Philadelphia, PA - January 31, 2012.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National
Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new
Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A:
Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment ending on
*February 29, 2012*.

Although supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal
articles, there is no recognized set of practices to guide in the selection,
delivery, discovery, or preservation of these materials. To address this gap,
NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored a working group to establish best practices
that would provide guidance to publishers and authors for management of
supplemental materials and would solve related problems for librarians,
abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators. The
Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in tandem: one to
address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. The draft
currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the Business
Working Group.

Press release:
http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=f4bc8a5a8210061012b507c0fbc2c42d10f
b5f1f

Draft for public comment (PDF):
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/7964/RP-15-201x%20Suppl_BW
G_draft_for_comments.pdf

Document Details:
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=7964&wg_abbrev
=suppbusiness

Online commenting form:
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/add_comment.php?document_id=7964

It is anticipated that Part B: Technical Considerations and Implementation
Recommendations will be released for Public Comment in Summer 2012.

The NISO-NFAIS Working Group will be grateful for your comments.

Thank you,
--Sasha

Alexander Schwarzman
Information Systems Analyst
American Geophysical Union
+1.202.777.7518
SSchwarzman@xxxxxxx
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