NISO has released the draft Recommended Practice "PIE-J: Presentation &
Identification of E-Journals" (NISO RP-16-201x) for public review and
comment through July 5, 2012. This Recommended Practice was developed to
provide guidance on the presentation of e-journals--particularly in the
areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation
practices--to publishers and platform providers, as well as to solve some
long-standing concerns of serials librarians. In addition to the
recommendations, the document includes extensive examples of good practices
using screenshots from various publishers' online journals platforms; a
discussion of helpful resources for obtaining title history and ISSN
information; an overview of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
and key points for using it correctly; an explanation of the Digital Object
Identifier (DOIR), the registration agency CrossRef, and tips on using DOIs
for journal title management; and a review of related standards and
recommended practices.

Citations form the basis for much scholarly research. Connecting researchers
with appropriate content is the goal of OpenURL linking and other reference
linking systems. Unless journal websites accurately and uniformly list all
the titles under which content was published, user access to desired content
is considerably diminished. For example, many e-journal publishers and
aggregators now place digitized content originally published under an
earlier title on the website for the current title, using the current ISSN,
thus seriously impeding the researcher's ability to find or identify the
content being sought. The PIE-J project was initiated to address these
issues. The PIE-J Recommended Practice provides a clear and succinct list of
guidelines that publishers can easily implement to facilitate long-term
access to their e-journal content. This constructive advice will aid
publishers with the presentation of born-digital content as well as
supporting the continued digitization of content from journals originally
published only in print."

The PIE-J draft Recommended Practice and an online commenting form are
available from the NISO PIE-J workroom at:
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@niso.org
301-654-2512

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