Jason,

 

It so happens there is a recent NISO Recommended Practice that can help you.    You can download the document at http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/project/details.php?project_id=109

 

The Recommended Practice is called Presentation and Identification of e-Journals or PIE-J.

 

The exec summary is that the faculty are correct.  You give a separate page to each version of the journal.  All the content for the former title is kept on the page with the former title.  All the content for the new title is kept with the new title.  You should provide a note and link on each page, pointing the users to older/newer content on the other version of the title.

 

All this is to prevent user confusion.   A user with a citation to the former title needs to find a page for that former title and all the content that was published under that former title.

 

Other details and recommendations are in the short NISO document.  It has an appendix of examples as well.

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

I am doing some research into the best practices for presenting a journal that has changed titles and focus.

 

We published a journal called Analytic Teaching. We changed the title to Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Practice. We not only changed the title, but expanded the focus.

 

http://journal.viterbo.edu/

 

Our faculty who edits the journal wants them to be presented on our site as two separate, distinct journals rather than as a journal that changed titles. He sees the expansion of the focus on justification. I'm aware that journals often change titles, but are still treated all the issues are still treated as one.

 

We need to update our ISSN since we moved from print to online, and we're planning to just have one ISSN for print, and one ISSN for online.

 

Does anyone have thoughts on best practices?

 

Thank you,

 

 

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