This presentation was provided by Regina Reynolds of the Library of Congress, as part of the NISO Standards Update on "Transfer" held during ALA Annual on June 25, 2023.

1. UPDATE
NISO Standards Update
ALA Annual
June 25, 2023
Regina Reynolds
NASA’s 76-WHEELED ORBITER TRANSFER SYSTEM

2. • What is Transfer?
• Transfer Code of Practice
• Transfer Alerting Service
• Transfer Standing
Committee
• Recent accomplishments
• Benefits for publishers
• Benefits for libraries
• Links
• Brief ISSN Update
What Lies Ahead

3. WHAT IS
TRANSFER?
A voluntary code for journal publishers
containing best practices for transferring
and receiving journals.
Governed by a standing committee of
librarians, publishers & other
intermediaries
Transfer is more than just a code:
● Transfer Alerting Service (database,
RSS feed, listserv)
● Ongoing program of outreach,
education, and support

5. UNDERGOING
REVISION
• Transformative
Agreements -Open
Access publishing
commitments, waivers,
APCs
• Subscribing Institutions –
Defining paid subscribers
• Perpetual access rights,
backfile content
• Updating downstream
services with corrected
links

6. TRANSFER
ALERTING
SERVICE
HOSTED BY
ISSN
INTERNATIONAL
CENTRE

7. TRANSFER STANDING COMMITTEE
● Representatives from library, publishing, standards communities
● Recent accomplishment include:
○ Updated the NISO Transfer Website
○ Created a new FAQ
○ Added instructions for receiving publishers to register transferred
titles at the ISSN Portal
○ Reminding endorsing publishers to register recently received titles
in the ISSN Portal

9. BENEFITS TO PUBLISHERS & SOCIETIES
• Checklist for both transferring and receiving publishers
• Helps avoid overlooking important assets and information
• Suggests timeline benchmarks
• Not prescriptive – publishers can do things their way
• List of Endorsing Publishers

10. BENEFITS TO LIBRARIES
• The Transfer Alerting Service (TAS): receive alerts and/or
search the database
• All the information you need in one place:
• The URL!
• Date and exact volume the transfer is effective
• The publisher that maintains the archive and can provide your
perpetual access
• Unfortunately:
■ Publishers often take a while to register their received titles

11. LINKS
NISO Transfer Online
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/transfer
Transfer Alerting Service
https://journaltransfer.issn.org/
NISO Transfer Code of Practice (v. 4)
https://www.niso.org/publications/rp-24-2019-
transfer

12. 2020

13. • Journals
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Newsletters
• Directories
• Continuing reports
• Monographic series
• Certain Websites
• Conferences
• Databases
• Institutional repositories
• Blogs
• Podcast series
Can THAT get an ISSN?

14. RIPM/RILM
Music Periodicals
Over 700 titles ( 250 U.S.)
800+ ISSNs for
National Newspaper Assn.

15. Cluster ISSN
(MARC field 023 proposed)
Fractal Cluster by Bruce White

16. Thank you!
rrey@loc.gov
issn@loc.gov