Re: Standardized metadata tags for peer reviewed and free.

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

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by implication, whether or not peer-reviewed)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

----- Original Message -----
From: ""FrederickFriend"" <ucylfjf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:27 PM
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