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SERU: A Licensing Advance What if publishers and librarians could articulate their shared trust in getting scholarly information to users instead of speaking to one another only through legal terms and teams? This ideal world is the vision of the folks behind the recently launched SERU (Shared E-Resources Understanding).	Libra 01 Jun 2008
SERU: A Licensing Advance Describes NISO's recommended practice, SERU (Shared E-Resources Understanding) that allows publishers and librarians to reach a mutual understanding about e-resources rather than haggling over terms and conditions in contractual licenses.	Library Journal 01 Jun 2008
Serials Solutions Announces SUSHI Support through the 360 Counter E-Resource Assessment Service Serials Solutions has successfully tested and deployed SUSHI, the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative, with its 360 Counter e-resource assessment service. Support for SUSHI in 360 Counter will allow librarians to bypass time-consuming,manual data aggregation of usage statistics and to quickly analyze a title's usage and its cost per-use.	Press Release 28 May 2008
Auto-Graphics Announces the Availability of the NCIP-compliant Circulation-Interlibrary Loan Link for AGent Resource Sharing Customers Auto-Graphics, Inc. (OTCBB: AUGR) (Pink Sheets: AUGR), a technology innovator providing library automation solutions for over 35 years, today announced the availability of the Circulation-Interlibrary Loan Link (CILL) module for customers using Auto-Graphics' interlibrary loan (ILL) and consortial borrowing solution, AGent Resource Sharing. Participating libraries can now use the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) compliant CILL module to minimize the number of steps needed to borrow and lend materials.	Press Release 28 May 2008
Microsoft Grows DAISY for Blind Computer Users While Adobe Wilts Microsoft has announced the availability of a plug-in that allows Word 2007, 2003, and XP users to save documents in the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) XML format. Microsoft's Reed Shaffner says DAISY XML eventually may be ported to versions of OpenOffice.org that support Office Open XML OOXML. The DAISY plug-in is currently being hosted on SourceForge as an open-source project.	Computerworld 09 May 2008
Incubating New Standards Initiatives: A Report From the First NISO Thought Leader Meeting By Todd Carpenter. Reports on NISO's first Thought Leader meeting on the theme of institutional repository (IR)systems that was held in Washington D.C. in February 2008. Thought Leader meetings bring together experts in a particular area to discuss issues and barriers and to identify opportunities where NISO can provide standards-based solutions. One of the top recommendations from the first meeting was that that a NISO working group be charged with developing a common deposit mechanism "tool" that would allow institutional repositories to capture objects as close to their creation point as possible.	Against the Grain 01 Apr 2008
The Problems of Institutional Identification: Toward a Universal Institutional ID Standards column by Todd Carpenter. Describes some of the existing identifier standards that are used for institutional identification and the gaps that these leave. NISO has launched a working group on Insitutional Identifiers to develop a standard that can be implemented in all library and publishing environments. The group will build on the work of the Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot (JSCEIP).	Against the Grain 01 Feb 2008
Electronic Resources Challenges and Opportunities Standards column by Todd Carpenter. Discusses the growth of Electronic Resources Management Systems (ERMS) and NISO's two-day seminar on the topic in Denver in September 2007. Announces the approval of the SUSHI standard (NISO Z39.93-2007), which automates the retrieval of usage statistics such as COUNTER reports for the ingest into ERMS.	Against the Grain 15 Dec 2007
Standards, Scalability, and the Efficiency of Digital Libraries Standards column by Todd Carpenter. Makes a case for the use of standards for the efficient distribution of electronic resources. Discusses the NISO projects: Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), Simplified E-Resources Understanding (SERU), and the License Expression Working Group (LEWG).	Against the Grain 01 Sep 2007
Ready to Work Without a License? NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group Standards column by Todd Carpenter. Describes the the Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU)working group's plans to develop a recommended practice to support the sale of e-resources without formal licenses, instead relying on a common set of shared understandings if they feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior.	Against the Grain 01 Apr 2007
Restructuring NISO's Standards Committees By Todd Carpenter. Describes new NISO Architecture and Topic Committees.	Against the Grain 01 Feb 2007
NISO Finds Its Own Road By Andrew Updegrove NISO is an ANSI accredited standards development organization ("SDO") -- and it also makes its standards available for free. It has its roots in library science -- but creates standards applicable to any organization that maintains large stores of information. It creates standards for paper that can remain stable for hundreds of years -- as well as client/server service and protocol standards for information retrieval.All in all, not your average accredited standards development organization. How did an organization founded by the library and publishing community in 1935 get from there to here? And where is it heading next?	Consortium Standards Bulletin, v.III, no.4 01 Apr 2004

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