The Fall 2011 issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is
now available in open access in PDF from the NISO website. In this issue of
ISQ, we provide several specific examples of the benefits of implementing
standards, ranging from savings in staff time to improved customer service
and a way to attract new customers. Specific case studies are included for
the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), the Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), and the Shared Electronic Resource
Understanding (SERU).

A complete Table of Contents is below my contact information. Both the
entire issue and individual articles may be freely downloaded. Visit:
http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2011/v23no4/

Cynthia Hodgson
ISQ Managing Editor
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@niso.org
301-654-2512

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Information Standards Quarterly
Fall 2011, v.23 no.4

Table of Contents

  FEATURES
• Staff Cost Savings from Implementing the NISO Circulation Interchange
Protocol (NCIP)
by Mary E. Jackson

 IN PRACTICE
• Scholarly iQ and SUSHI: A Case Study
by Gary Van Overborg, John Milligan, and Michael Lee

• Implications for a Medium-Sized Publisher in Using SERU: A Shared
Electronic Resource Understanding
by Mary E. Marshall

 OPINIONS
• Innovation and Standardization: Friends not Foes
by John Sack

 NISO REPORTS
• NISO Launches Two New Initiative to Develop Standards and Recommended
Practices: Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing and Open Discovery
Initiative
by Nettie Lagace

  NOTEWORTHY

• ESPReSSO Single Sign-On Authentication Recommended Practice Published

• IEEE Standards Education E-zine Launches Inaugural Issue

• EPUB3 Becomes Final IDPF Specification

• W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Issues Final Report

• New VRA Core 4.0 Implementation Registry

• The Library of Congress Issues Initial Plan for its Bibliographic
Framework Transition Initiative

• NISO Issues COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile for Public Comment

• PREMIS OWL Ontology Available

• JISC Collections Issues Journal Transfer Guidelines

  STANDARDS IN DEVELOPMENT, November 15, 2011