Patrick Le Bœuf / Bibliothèque nationale de France and François-Xavier Pelegrin / ISSN IC, will present at IFLA 2014 the model, as well as its background and recent developments of PRESSoo.

PRESSoo is an extension of the FRBRoo model devoted to serials and continuing resources.

A recommended practice on the Presentation & Identification of e-Journals from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) contains detailed guidance for publishers and platform providers about title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices. Extensive examples and detailed information about ISSN are included.

The AFNOR CN46 / BnF working session was hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) on 27 June 2014. The topic was  the standards for exchanges between communities (archivists, librarians, publishers, records managers). The presentations and reports are now available (in French). Among them, a focus on three standards : ONIX, ISNI and MEDONA.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new recommended practice, Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs (NISO RP-20-2014). Demand driven acquisition (DDA), also referred to as patron-driven acquisition, is a method used by libraries for collection development where monographs are purchased at their point of need when selected by users from a pool of potential titles.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new recommended practice, Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (NISO RP-19-2014), which provides specific guidelines on participation in the new generation of library discovery services. The group’s final publication includes guidelines to content providers on disclosure of level of participation, the minimum set of metadata elements provided for indexing, linking practices, and technical formats.

The Initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended practices for alternative metrics. The White Paper is open for public comment through July 18, 2014.

PIE-J, The Presentation & Identification of E-Journals, a NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Recommended Practice, was published just over a year ago. It provides much-needed guidance on the presentation of e-journals. Today, in order to continue improving this recommended practice, the Commitee would like to gather feedbacks from librarians, publishers and providers who have used PIE-J. Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the U.S. ISSN Center is a member of the PIE-J Standing Commitee.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice. The initial recommendations were focused on metadata exchange between content providers for journal resources. The revision includes the more granular, complex issues that cause problems in metadata supply, including consortia-specific metadata and metadata transfer for open access publications, e-books, and conference proceedings.

In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis.

The third meeting of the project’s group was held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA, all the documents from this session and from the previous ones are available on the project’s homepage.

In January 2014 the BnF was appointed as ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) Registration Agency by the ISNI-International Agency. The BnF is the first national library in the world to make such a commitment.