Industry News & Releases

October 7, 2013 – As previously announced, NISO is undertaking—with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of assessment metrics for the scholarly …

September 16, 2013 – Sylvia Hunter, SSP Communications Committee, University of Toronto Press – The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a green paper on copyright policy titled, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy,” in July and will …

By Michael J. Mozina, SSP Communications Committee Cochair – Despite a blizzard that crippled a large portion of the northeast in mid-February, the 7th annual Tools of Change conference once again brought together some of the best minds in the …

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have published a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials (NISO RP-15-2013). Supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, but until …

By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex—There’s a lot of excitement about the new EPUB 3 format (an official recommendation of the IDPF, the International Digital Publishing Forum, as of October 11, 2011)—as there should be. It’s a major advance that was designed to bring …

By Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director—Our world is increasingly interconnected, and information distribution—even in the scholarly landscape—can take a variety of forms, from print to audio and video. Unambiguously identifying the content creator and then linking the content object to …

By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex Content Solutions and SSP Past President—We’re at a key inflection point in the evolution of standards that are important to many of us in scholarly publishing. As it happens, each of the “big three” models …

What’s the purpose of your assignment to India? More and more of Aptara’s customers, many of them college textbook and STM publishers, are requesting off-shore services, including copy editing, but they’re concerned that copy editors who are non-native English speakers …

By Patrice Lyons with input from Robert E. Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives—The Internet is used in many of our daily activities, usually without us giving much thought to what it is. There is often an awareness of this …

By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex—This year’s book-oriented O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference, held in New York City February 9-11, was a something of a watershed in the transition from the aspirational to the actual when it comes to digital publishing. …