News from NFAIS

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

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From: Jill Oneill [mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM

Thought you might have an interest in the announcement from NFAIS today.
Please feel free to forward the information to any colleagues who may have
an interest.

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NFAIS Releases Guiding Principles in Support of Industry-Wide
Collaboration on Reference Linking:

Upon unanimous vote of the Board of Directors and with strong support from
individual member organizations, NFAIS has released a set of Guiding
Principles to encourage widespread linking of bibliographic and full text
databases.  The ultimate objective is to support the flow of scholarly
communication and research through an acceleration of the information
discovery process - a process facilitated by the seamless navigation from
indexes and pointers to the complete documents. The Reference Linking
Guidelines were developed by the NFAIS Information Linking Committee - a
group comprised of both NFAIS members and non-members who recognize the
need for reference linking to become an information industry norm.

For more information, click through to these documents:

Press Release:
http://www.nfais.org/press/2003_press_release_Linking_Guidelines.htm

Full Text of NFAIS Guiding Principles: Reference Linking
http://www.nfais.org/2003_Guiding_Princ_Ref_Linking.htm

Information Linking Committee Charter and Members
http://www.nfais.org/committees/information_linking.htm

For more information on the Guidelines or on the NFAIS Information Linking
Committee contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication & Planning
at jilloneill@nfais.org or voice(215)-893-1561

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Best, 
Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS