Industry News & Releases

December 11, 2013 – As EPUB 3 turns two years old—no “terrible twos” jokes, please—there is more activity than ever around this fundamental standard. Too much, in fact, to present here in detail other than a bulleted-list summary (with links …

November 22, 2013 – Sylvia Hunter, SSP Communications Committee, University of Toronto Press – Canada’s three major public research funding bodies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social …

October 7, 2013 – As previously announced, NISO is undertaking—with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of assessment metrics for the scholarly …

September 16, 2013 – Sylvia Hunter, SSP Communications Committee, University of Toronto Press – The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a green paper on copyright policy titled, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy,” in July and will …

By Michael J. Mozina, SSP Communications Committee Cochair – Despite a blizzard that crippled a large portion of the northeast in mid-February, the 7th annual Tools of Change conference once again brought together some of the best minds in the …

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have published a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials (NISO RP-15-2013). Supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, but until …

By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex—There’s a lot of excitement about the new EPUB 3 format (an official recommendation of the IDPF, the International Digital Publishing Forum, as of October 11, 2011)—as there should be. It’s a major advance that was designed to bring …

By Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director—Our world is increasingly interconnected, and information distribution—even in the scholarly landscape—can take a variety of forms, from print to audio and video. Unambiguously identifying the content creator and then linking the content object to …

By Bill Kasdorf, VP, Apex Content Solutions and SSP Past President—We’re at a key inflection point in the evolution of standards that are important to many of us in scholarly publishing. As it happens, each of the “big three” models …

What’s the purpose of your assignment to India? More and more of Aptara’s customers, many of them college textbook and STM publishers, are requesting off-shore services, including copy editing, but they’re concerned that copy editors who are non-native English speakers …