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SPS: Serials Products and Subscriptions - Release 0.91

The ONIX Serials Products and Subscriptions (SPS) format defines a family of messages used for transmitting information about Serial Subscription Products, with or without price information, and with or without subscription information relating to a particular subscriber.  The four messages currently defined are:
  • Product List Unpriced.  A list of subscription products offered by a publisher, subscription agent, online publisher, or content hosting service, without price information.
  • Product List Priced.  A list of subscription products offered by a publisher, subscription agent, online publisher, or content hosting service, including price information.
  • Product Subscription List.  A list of products subscribed to by a particular subscriber or group of subscribers.  It may or may not include prices.
  • Product Subscriptions Quote.  A list of subscription products with a price quote offered to a particular subscriber.
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 priced product lists.

Release 0.91 is the version which is currently being piloted.  On completion of the pilots, and the incorporation of any consequent changes, EDItEUR 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.

Revised version of Schema January 2007: minor corrections have been made to the Schema for consistency with the User Guide, none of which affect the functionality of the Schema.

Download the ONIX Serials Glossary (PDF)
Download SPS Outline Specification Release 0.91 (PDF)
Download SPS XML Schema Release 0.91 with Codelists (ZIP) (Note that the Codelists file must be held in the same folder as the XML Schema)
Download the eye-readable ONIX Serials Codelists (PDF)
Download SPS User Guide Release 0.91 (ZIP)
  • View User Guide for SPS Release 0.91, Product List Unpriced format
  • View User Guide for SPS Release 0.91, Product List Priced format
  • View User Guide for SPS Release 0.91, Product Subscription List format
  • View User Guide for SPS Release 0.91, Product Subscription Quote format

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