[open-science] NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

Sat Feb 9 22:34:33 UTC 2013

I'd put my 2 cents into a "YES" :)

Rayna

2013/2/9 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>

> We should input into this?
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> From: Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:13 AM
> Subject: [GOAL] NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open
> Access Metadata and Indicators
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> [Forwarding from Cynthia Hodgson at NISO, via Peter Suber and SPARC OA
> Forum.]****
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> *NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access
> Metadata and Indicators*
>
> ** **
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> *Interested participants from all library types, publishers, and funding
> agencies are encouraged to contact NISO*
>
> ** **
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> February 7, 2013 – Baltimore, MD – The National Information Standards
> Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop
> standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the
> accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how
> “open” the item is. Many offerings are available from publishers under the
> banner of *Open Access (OA)*, *Increased Access*, *Public Access*, or
> other descriptions; the terms offered vary between publishers and, in some
> cases, based on the funding organization of the author. Adding to the
> potential confusion, a number of publishers also offer hybrid options in
> which some articles are “open” while the rest of the journal’s content are
> available only by subscription or license. No standardized bibliographic
> metadata currently provides information on whether a specific article is
> freely readable and what re-use rights might be available to readers.
> Visual indicators or icons indicating the openness of an article are
> inconsistent in both design and use across publishers or even across
> journals from the same publisher.****
>
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> “The NISO OA metadata and indicator project would complement other related
> efforts currently underway,” states Nettie Lagace, NISO’s Associate
> Director for Programs. “Such projects include CrossMark, CrossRef’s update
> identification service; *How Open Is It?*, a guide developed by PLoS,
> SPARC, and OASPA; Vocabularies for OA (V40A), a JISC/UKOLN project;
> ONIX-PL, a specification for communicating licensing terms developed by
> EDItEUR; the Linked Content Coalition; and NISO’s Open Discovery
> Initiative. Coordination and communication with these projects will be an
> important aspect of the NISO working group’s efforts.”****
>
> ** **
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> “The benefits of having standardized OA metadata and indicators should
> have a positive impact on many participants in the scholarly communications
> chain,” explains Todd Carpenter, NISO’s Executive Director. “Funders who
> have implemented OA mandates would have a mechanism to determine if a
> specific article or researcher is compliant with their policies. Publishers
> of hybrid journals would benefit by having a simple mechanism for signaling
> the OA status of the articles published under that model. Authors could
> more easily determine whether their selected distribution option is being
> respected and be able to document their compliance with funder
> requirements. Readers could more easily ascertain from search results if
> they can read an article for free or fee—and more easily adhere to the
> terms that publishers have established. Aggregators and discovery service
> providers would have an improved mechanism of programmatically collecting
> and surfacing OA articles that are available in the community.”****
>
> ** **
>
> The project launched by NISO will focus initially on metadata elements
> that describe the readership rights associated with an OA article.
> Specifically, the NISO Working Group will determine the optimal mechanisms
> to describe and transmit the right, if any, an arbitrary user has to access
> a specific article from any internet connection point. Recommendations will
> include a means for distribution and aggregation of this metadata in
> machine-readable form. The group will also consider the feasibility of
> incorporating information on re-use rights and the feasibility of reaching
> agreement on transmission of that data.****
>
> ** **
>
> Individuals interested in participating in this working group should
> contact Nettie Lagace (nlagace at niso.org). An interest group list for this
> project will be available for those who would like to receive updates on
> the Working Group's progress and provide feedback to the group on its work.
> To subscribe, send an e-mail to oa-indicators-info-subscribe at list.niso.org
> .****
>
>  ****
>
> Cynthia Hodgson****
>
> Technical Editor / Consultant****
>
> National Information Standards Organization****
>
> chodgson at niso.org****
>
> 301-654-2512****
>
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