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Re: Standardized metadata tags for peer reviewed and free.



I'm no expert, but it seems to me that we're talking about two different types of metadata tag here:

Version identification (which could include, either explicitly or by implication, whether or not peer-reviewed)

Rights identification (e.g. free to everyone, free to certain classes
(students, subscribers), or only available for a fee)

Is anyone aware of work going on in the latter area?

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org

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Subject: Re: Standardized metadata tags for peer reviewed and free.

Chuck is absolutely right that users need a clear indication of the status of journal articles, and there are at least three projects underway to ensure that readers are given this information. The NISO Standards Development Committee has charged a US/European group to investigate journal article version control identifiers, and two JISC projects are also working in the same area: the VERSIONS Project as part of the JISC Repositories Programme looking at version identification for journal articles in economics, and a scoping study on version identification of all types of content in repositories being undertaken by RightsCom for the JISC Scholarly Communication Group. The first two are longer term projects but the RightsCom study should be avilable publicly in April or May. We have mechanisms in place to ensure that the three projects know what each other is doing.

In undertaking its work JISC is taking no position on whether any particular version is of more value to the user than any other. It may be that an un-refereed preprint is of value in certain circumstances, as happens for example with the arXiv database. What is important is that the user can take the status of the article into account in reading it. It would be good to know of other work on version identification being undertaken elsewhere, particularly outside the US and Europe.

Fred Friend
JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant
Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL