1. Kathy Klemperer Andrea Twiss-Brooks
Project Manager Co-Director, Science Libraries
Harrassowitz University of Chicago

2. Background and problem definition
Other initiatives, standards and proposals
Developing a set of best practice guidelines
Discussion and feedback

3. Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ)
Spring 2009, Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 18-24
http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2009/v21n2

4. Retention of the original title and
citation information is essential for
users trying to access the original
full text of journal articles.

6. Since 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

7. Sometimes 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.

8. Many 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

9. 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.

11.  Taylor & Francis APA
 Harrassowitz Library of Congress
 Serials Solutions (CONSER, ISSN)
 IEEE National Library of Medicine
 JSTOR/Ithaka Cranfield U. Press (UK)
 Sage University of Washington
 EBSCO University of Chicago
 Hein UCLA
 Publishing Technology

12. 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 Group
www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart
ISSN International Centre
www.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. 18-24
http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2009/v21n2