Transfer
The Transfer Code of Practice responds to the expressed needs of the scholarly journal community for consistent guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal content remains easily accessible by librarians and readers when there is a transfer between parties, and to ensure that the transfer process occurs with minimum disruption. Publishers are being asked to publicly endorse and follow the Code of Practice which is a set of voluntary “best practices” for the industry. The Code and any policies and procedures developed around the Code will be guided by openness and fairness and will be to the benefit of libraries, readers, users and other consumers.
Publishers that currently endorse the Code are listed on the Publisher Endorsement page and any new Publishers that wish to endorse the Code can do so by contacting one of the co-Chairs of the Transfer Working Group, listed below.
- UKSG Transfer Code of Practice, Version 2.0
- Sign up to be notified of journal transfers - Transfer notification list
- Follow the journal transfer notifications on the Transfer notification blog
- Publishers can notify of journal transfers by using the Journal Transfer Submission Form
- Information on Press relations
- Transfer Papers and presentations
- List of endorsing publishers
If you have any questions please email the co-Chairs of the Working Group, Alison Mitchell, a.mitchell@nature.com, and Elizabeth Winter, elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu
