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ONIX for
Serials
SPS: Serials Products and
Subscriptions - Release 0.9
The
Serials Products and Subscriptions (SPS) format conveys
catalogue information on serial resources as well as details
of the specific subscriptions held by one or more
subscribing parties. Typically, the sending
organisation will be a publisher or subscription agent.
Recipients can include university or corporate libraries,
agents, consortia, or indeed a “broadcast” customer base
for subscription price lists.
Three
main application classes are supported by SPS. The
first and second are unpriced and priced lists of the serial
products available on subscription from the sending
organisation. (A “serial product” may be anything
from a single print title to a complex set of print and/or
electronic journals.) Since comprehensive product
metadata is carried, these variants can for example be used
for price/sales catalogues or to illustrate the total range
of a publisher’s or agent’s product offerings – as
well as indicating to which serial work(s) each product
relates.
The third variant is tailored to a specific subscribing
organisation or consortium, and carries priced lists of the
products and subscriptions currently supplied to the
subscriber(s) concerned. We expect that, among other
things, it will be used to assist in reconciling a
library’s view of the subscriptions it holds with the
publisher’s or agent’s view.
Release 0.9 is the version which is
currently being piloted.
On completion of the pilots, and the incorporation of
any consequent changes, we will issue a first full Release,
to be numbered 1.0, after which every effort will be made to
maintain upwards compatibility in future revisions.
Download SPS Outline
Specification Release 0.9 (PDF)
Download SPS XML Schema
Release 0.9
with Codelists (ZIP)
View SPS User Guide Release 0.9 (HTML)
(not yet available)
Download SPS User Guide Release 0.9
(ZIP)
(not yet available)
(Note
that the Codelists file must be held in the same folder as
the XML Schema) Back
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