The speakers have been finalized for the NISO / EDItEUR webinar on ONIX
for Serials: Case Studies of Use, to be held on December 11, 2008 from
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time). EDItEUR and NISO have also jointly
sponsored the ONIX for Serials projects, messaging formats developed to
provide a means of sharing information about serials products and
subscriptions so that it can be understood and used by computers
throughout the supply chain process.

Tim Devenport, Nature Publishing Group, will discuss ONIX SPS (Serials
Products and Subscriptions), which enables the communication of
information about serial subscription products, with or without price
information, including the option of sharing subscription information
relating to a particular subscriber.

Jerry Ward, ProQuest Platform Product Manager will speak on ONIX SOH
(Serials Online Holdings), which allows publishers and content providers
to communicate library-specific, detailed holdings information from
publications access management systems to libraries.

William Hoffman, Swets Information Services, will talk about ONIX SRN
(Serials Release Notification) is a format for communicating information
about the publication or electronic availability of one or more serial
releases�letting you know when an item is available. SRN can work both
at the issue and article level to assist libraries in claiming and with
link resolver access.

Katharina Klemperer, EDItEUR Consultant, will join the webinar
presenters for the Q&A portion, where attendees will have ample
opportunity to ask questions during the event. The questions asked
during the event and their answers will be posting to the event website
following the webinar.

Who Should Attend

This webinar is for publishers and content providers who are interested
in learning how to implement the ONIX for Serials messages as a service
for their customers, and for librarians who are interested in receiving
this information and would like to learn more about how to do so. Anyone
who would like to know more about what information each of these message
formats provides will find this webinar useful.

Information and Registration:

Please visit the event website
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/webinars/o4s) for more information
and to register. The fee is $59 for NISO and ALCTS members and $79 for
non-members.

Note: This message has been cross-posted.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512