From: Elizabeth Winter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM

Press Release - Please excuse cross-postings.

Transfer launches new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service

Transfer, the UKSG-sponsored initiative to create a Code of Practice
to follow when journals are transferred between publishers, is
delighted to announce the release of its Enhanced Transfer Alerting
Service (ETAS).

ETAS is a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers involved
in a journal transfer to notify the various stakeholders by providing
a standardised set of information relating to the exchange. This
information will then be hosted in a searchable database, providing a
simple and easily accessible way for librarians and other groups to
find out about journal transfers involving the 36 currently endorsing
publishers.

ETAS is the latest development from the Transfer Working Group and is
a partnership of JISC, Mimas, UKSG and Cranfield University. It will
replace the existing Transfer alerting service, which was not linked
to a database. Data from the old alerting service system will also be
migrated to ETAS.

Commenting on the new service, Elizabeth Winter, co-chair of the
Transfer Working Group and Electronic Resources Coordinator at Georgia
Institute of Technology, said: “Keeping up with journal transfers is
always a struggle. My colleagues and I have desired a database of
transfer information for a long while, so I'm delighted that the
project partners were able to bring this to fruition. I hope serials
and e-resources librarians everywhere will agree that it is useful”.

The new service is now live at http://www.jusp.mimas.ac.uk/etas/ . For
more information please contact [log in to unmask]

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About Transfer:

Established in 2006, the Transfer Code of Practice has been endorsed
by 36 publishers, including Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell and Springer.
All of the publishers have agreed, wherever possible, to use the Code
when managing and communicating journal transfers between themselves.
A Working Group, comprising publishers, librarians and intermediaries,
oversees the development of the Code and associated activities. Later
this year the Working Group will introduce an updated Code of Practice
that builds on the work already done and the changes that have taken
place regarding online journal delivery since the Group was
established.

About the ETAS partners:

JISC ( www.jisc.ac.uk ) is the UK's technology consortium for higher
and further education and skills. JISC provides advice, guidance and
resources to help institutions make the best use of innovative
technology. As part of that remit, JISC supports the UKSG to help
information professionals work smarter for the benefit of UK education
and research.

Mimas ( mimas.ac.uk ) is an organisation of experts. Its role is to
support the advancement of knowledge, powering world-class research
and teaching. As a national data centre based at The University of
Manchester, Mimas hosts a significant number of the UK's research
information assets – and builds applications to help people make the
most of this rich resource. Mimas has a longstanding relationship with
JISC, developing services that support teaching, learning and
research, and strong connections with research councils, especially
the ESRC.

UKSG ( www.uksg.org ) exists to connect the knowledge community and
encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the
only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities
across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers,
intermediaries and technology vendors.

Cranfield University. Positioned between traditional universities and
business and industry, Cranfield University combines the academic
rigour and long-term perspective of a university with the commercial
and business focus of industry. Cranfield educates students at
postgraduate level on both professional development and
degree-awarding courses bringing a range of multidisciplinary skills
to bear in addressing a number of fields including: aerospace,
automotive, energy, environment, healthcare, manufacturing,
management, security and defence. The Library and Information Service
has a record of contributing to the community via involvement in a
number of JISC funded research projects including Journals Usage
Statistics Portal (JUSP) and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
(IRUS)

Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Georgia Tech Library
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: [log in to unmask]