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["Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@xxxxxxxx>]

NISO has released the draft Recommended Practice "PIE-J: Presentation &
Identification of E-Journals" (NISO RP-16-201x) for public review and
comment through July 5, 2012. This Recommended Practice was developed to
provide guidance on the presentation of e-journals--particularly in the
areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation
practices--to publishers and platform providers, as well as to solve some
long-standing concerns of serials librarians. In addition to the
recommendations, the document includes extensive examples of good practices
using screenshots from various publishers' online journals platforms; a
discussion of helpful resources for obtaining title history and ISSN
information; an overview of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
and key points for using it correctly; an explanation of the Digital Object
Identifier (DOIR), the registration agency CrossRef, and tips on using DOIs
for journal title management; and a review of related standards and
recommended practices.

Citations form the basis for much scholarly research. Unless journal
websites accurately and uniformly list all the titles under which content
was published, user access to desired content is considerably diminished.
For example, many e-journal publishers and aggregators now place digitized
content originally published under an earlier title on the website for the
current title, using the current ISSN, thus seriously impeding the
researcher's ability to find or identify the content being sought. The PIE-J
Recommended Practice provides a clear and succinct list of guidelines that
publishers can easily implement to facilitate long-term access to their
e-journal content. This constructive advice will aid publishers with the
presentation of born-digital content as well as supporting the continued
digitization of content from journals originally published only in print.

The PIE-J draft Recommended Practice and an online commenting form are
available from the NISO PIE-J workroom at:
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/.


Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@xxxxxxxx
301-654-2512