But What About Corporate Authors?

NISO Institutional Identifier Project Underway
by Barbara Quint

Thomson Scientific has joined an effort with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) to build an open standard for identifying institutions. The initial NISO effort will focus on academic and research institutions, the kind often referred to in author affiliation or corporate author fields. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) that creates technical standards for managing information.
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