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ICEDIS

ICEDIS (the International Committee on EDI for Serials) is an organisation composed of publishers, subscription agents, other intermediaries and system vendors, all of whom are active in the sphere of serials publication.

It exists to promote the use of standards and protocols between trading partners in the serials sector. Its underlying objective is to facilitate rapid, accurate and automated communications about journal subscriptions between the industry players involved.

These communications span a range of business use cases, from transactional messaging on orders and renewals to exchanges of rich product information to support sales and customer support.

ICEDIS is co-chaired by senior representatives of subscription agencies and publishers. It works closely with EDItEUR, which provides ICEDIS with expert consultancy on message and standards development as well as advice on implementation and best-practice guidelines.

ICEDIS works within the serials industry:

•To be proactive in the specification, development, testing and implementation of agreed EDI/eCommerce standards

• To encourage the exploitation and acceptance of such standards, thus enhancing cost-effective and value-added services throughout the industry.

• To be recognised as an independent international body for the formulation, maintenance, administration and dissemination of EDI/eCommerce standards between publishers, agents and other industry intermediaries.

• Work together with other standards and trade organisations to optimise the range and acceptability of the standards developed for the industry.

• And closely with EDItEUR, which manages ICEDIS and provides expert consultancy on message and standards development as well as advice on implementation and best-practice guidelines.

Meetings
ICEDIS meets to discuss relevant issues at the Frankfurt Book Fair and by teleconference at other times. Details of any forthcoming ICEDIS meetings are included in our Events section.

ICEDIS Publisher's Price message v1.0
The ICEDIS Publisher’s Price List Message format has been developed to support the transmission of a list of subscription products including price information whether offered by a publisher, subscription agent, online publisher, content hosting service, or any other party that sells subscriptions.

This message can convey price list information for subscription products consisting of a single component, for packages containing multiple components, or for combinations of print and online versions. It can transmit prices based on a variety of pricing models and is also able to identify products that have ceased publication or that have been transferred from one publisher to another.

The documentation for the ICEDIS price message has just been released (July 2009) and includes:

(Note that the Codelists file must be held in the same folder as the XML Schema)

Link to the ICEDIS website

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