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ONIX for Serials
SRN: Serials Release Notification              Version 0.92 (May 2008)

The Serials Release Notification (SRN) format defines a family of messages designed to support information exchanges about the planned or confirmed publication or electronic availability of one or more serial releases.  The three messages currently defined are:

  • ONIXSRNIssueNotice. Used to announce the physical publication date or online availability date of issues of serial publications or supplements to monographs.  Version 0.91 included only this message.
  • ONIXSRNContentItemDescription. Used to transmit information describing individual content items (usually articles) in one or more releases.  This message was added in Version 9.2.
  • ONIXSRNContentItemExtendedDescription. Used to transmit detailed information about individual content items (usually articles) in one or more releases.  This message was added in Version 9.2.

Business applications for the ONIXSRNIssueNotice message include notification that a serial item has been published physically or made available online, notification of a change in the expected date of an upcoming release, and advance notice of a combined release. The ONIXSRNContentItemDescription message supports the provision of table-of-contents alerts and notification of single-article releases. The ONIXSRNContentItemExtendedDescription message supports distribution of article-level information suitable for populating abstracting and indexing databases.  Future extensions may include notification of pattern changes and advance notification of publication schedules.

Parties to the SRN exchanges will include publishers, content hosting services, abstracting and indexing services, document-delivery agencies, subscription agents, DOI registration agencies and libraries.

Version 0.92 is currently being piloted and completely replaces version 0.91.  Revision notes are included in the ONIX SRN Overview Version 0.92 (PDF)
.  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.

ONIX Serials Glossary (PDF)
Eye-readable ONIX Serials Codelists (PDF)  (last updated February 2008)
ONIX SRN Overview Version 0.92 (PDF)  (last updated May 2008)
SRN XML Schema Version 0.92 with Codelists (ZIP)  (last updated March 2008) (Note that the Codelists file must be held in the same folder as the XML Schema)

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