Recommended Practices for Journal Article Supplemental Material Highlights of the Sub-Session Background Basic Principles Definitions Status of Recommendations

Recommended Practices for Journal Article Recommended Practices for Journal Article Supplemental MaterialSupplemental Material

Highlights of the Sub-Session

BackgroundBasic PrinciplesDefinitionsStatus of

Recommendations

Presented by

Bonnie LawlorExecutive DirectorNational Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)


Background Marcus, Emilie, “Taming Editorial Material,” Cell, 139

(1):11(2009)

Schwarzman, Alexander, Supporting Materials, November 2, 2009

NISO/NFAIS Roundtable Discussion: January 22, 2010

Business and Technical Working Groups Established

Kick-off Meetings: August 2010

Business Group: 19 teleconferences to date


Business Working Group Charge Development of definitions

Recommendations for referencing and linking to/from supplemental material and for providing context

Recommendations around metadata, persistent identifiers, and citations

Recommendations for peer review, production, and curation

Rights management

Recommended roles and responsibilities


Recommendations are guidelines, not rules

Recommendations are “best” practices and look to the future

Practices must ensure future access to essential information

Practices are for supplemental material at the article level

Practices are for content owned, published and hosted by the publisher

Supplemental materials should be tightly pertinent to the article

Business Models are beyond the scope of this initiative


Definition of an Article:

An article is an original publication that appears in a scholarly journal. It is a complete, coherent work that provides all the information necessary for a reader to comprehend the scholarly work described.


Definition of Supplemental Material

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Diverse relationships to the work described in the article

“ Limitless repository for additional “stuff”

Three Types of Supplemental MaterialThree Types of Supplemental Material


Integral Content Should be reviewed at the same level as the article Publisher/Editor determine the editing policy Should be cited and linked at the same level as a table or figure

that is contained within the article framework Citations from other publications should cite the article as a whole,

not the integral supplemental material May be assigned a unique DOI to support linking from the article

to the supplemental material Bi-directional linking is required for navigation to/from the article

Publisher is responsible for preservation


Additional Content

Should be reviewed at the same level as the article

Publisher/Editor determine the editing policy

Should be cited and linked at the same level as a table or figure that is contained within the article framework

Citations from other publications may directly cite the additional supplemental material

Bi-directional linking is recommended

Publisher preservation recommended


Other Related Content

Level of review depends upon editorial policy

Publisher/Editor not responsible for editing

Content is separate from the article and is referenced in the text similar to other cited references

Bi-directional linking is recommended

Encourage authors to deposit content in reliable archives for preservation and linking


Other Issues

Context

Sharing of data

Metadata and packaging

Discoverability/findability

Roles and responsibilities

Rights management


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Recommended Practices for Journal Article Supplemental Material Highlights of the Sub-Session Background Basic Principles Definitions Status of Recommendations