Best practice and standardization initiatives for managing electronic resources

Abstract

The processes of managing and accessing electronic resources involve a number of participants and tend to be complex, time-intensive and susceptible to human error. Licensing, exchange of acquisition data, research and usage data collection are some of the processes that have been performed manually or have no or only poorly implemented best practices or standards. New best practices and standards related to the management of electronic resources as well as new approaches to earlier standardization efforts are currently underway to address these opportunities. OpenURL has a broad range of potential applications. Knowledge Bases and Related Tools is a working group formed by NISO and the United Kingdom Serials Group to develop best practices for the exchange of data among suppliers of knowledge bases and link resolvers, content providers and libraries in the knowledge base supply chain. An identifier closely associated with access to electronic resources is the Digital Object Identifier. The International Standard Text Code number is meant to encompass all printed and digital manifestations and editions of a particular work.