Major content and discovery service providers declare conformance with National Information Standards Organization's open discovery initiative

摘要

In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers - Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); and SAGE - have publically disclosed their support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). In NISO's Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (RP-19-2014), content providers are encouraged to take specific measures to declare their conformance with ODFs recommended practice for pre-indexed "web-scale" discovery services, with the goal of increasing open communication and collaboration. Each organization has published an ODI Conformance Statement, which articulates their efforts to meet ODI's discovery service indexing recommendations. For example, using ODI's conformance checklists, all four participating content providers make their full-text articles available to all discovery service providers for indexing. These providers state that core metadata for their publications is distributed routinely for indexing and that these data provide "the content item and additional descriptive content for as much of their content as possible". In the spirit of transparency, the checklists from these four publishers note any relevant exceptions or gaps in their conformance to the ODI-recommended practice.