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Purpose and Scope

The goals of the Content Platform Migrations Recommended Practice ("Recommendations") are to promote a set of guidelines that apply whenever electronic content is migrated from one hosting platform to another, and to encourage the industry to embrace these recommendations as a baseline level of quality and performance. The Recommendations are concerned entirely with the online provision of content, and not with print material. Reviewing all recommendations presented in the document will provide a complete understanding of the suggested actions, as they could be applied differently depending on the specific content migration project.

It should be noted that Content Platform Migrations are different from journal transfers from one publisher to another. In this case, the same publisher controls all of the content, but they are changing the technology used to provide the content online. In the latter case, one or more journals are being transferred from one publisher to another. NISO RP-24-2019, Transfer Code of Practice (Version 4.0). covers guidelines for these types of transfers.