Managing Information News | British Library And Library of Congress Support Common Archiving Standard

Managing Information News | British Library And Library of Congress Support Common Archiving Standard: "The British Library and the US Library of Congress have announced that they support the migration of electronic content to the NLM DTD standard, where practicable. The libraries hope that their advocacy of migration to this standard will help ensure long-term access to eJournal content.

Access in perpetuity to information sources in their collections is a key mission of major libraries. This long-term access applies to both print and electronic items and is made possible by the use of internationally recognised and agreed standards. In electronic publications these standards are still evolving – however, authors, publishers, information providers and others are converging on specific standards in some areas. "