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April 7,2025, Open Teleconference: Transfer

Open Teleconference

Please join us for the April 2025 Open Teleconference, where our topic will be the Transfer Code of Practice. The draft of the Transfer Code of Practice, version 5.0, is currently open for public comment and available on the committee's webpage. We will discuss the new revision with Transfer Standing Committee co-chairs Sophia Anderton and Émilie Lavallée-Funston.

The Transfer Code of Practice is a voluntary code of conduct and best practices for journal publishers, which contains guidelines for key steps to take when journal owners transfer their journal content to and from one another. It seeks to address the technical and communication issues that arise during these transactions, with a goal of eradicating any disruption of access to journal content by end users.  Support tools developed by the Transfer Standing Committee and other supporters include several services to notify librarians and other interested parties of journal moves. Transfer was initially created by the UKSG in 2007 and moved to NISO in 2014.

Transfer encompasses three areas of work:

  1. The Transfer Code of Practice (link is to current, 4.0 version)
  2. Publishers that currently endorse the Code
  3. The Transfer Alerting Service, designed to facilitate communication of journal transfers, now hosted by the ISSN International Centre. 

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Additional Information

All events follow the NISO Code of Conduct. More information can be found here.