Documentation: Information about Pilot activity can be located from Links directed from this page (see the Press section for News Releases and other articles about the Pilot):

• 11th January, 2008. Final Report (draft). “The Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot: Draft Final Report”. Donald Chvatal, editor. (PDF)
   
• 1-2 June, 2007. NASIG conference presentation. “The Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Project: What’s Good, What’s Bad, What’s Missing”. Don Chvatal, Word Document (draft)

• 1-2 June, 2007. NASIG conference presentation. “The Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Project: What’s Good, What’s Bad, What’s Missing”. Don Chvatal, Original PowerPoint Document

• 15 April, 2007. Minutes. ICEDIS Meeting, UKSG (Warwick). “Draft proposal submitted to the International Committee on EDI for Serials by EBSCO and THINK subscriptions.” Draft Proposal for CMS Activation Messages. (PowerPoint) (Summary from Minutes: Dan Tonkery (EBSCO) introduced the joint project between EBSCO, THINK Subscription and Meta Press designed to test the concept of using an XML version of the ICEDIS message, exchanged between subscription agent, publisher and online host, to speed up activation of e-journal orders and renewals. Paul Russell of THINK presented a prototype web-service-based proposal in which the agent sends an XML version of the ICEDIS message either to the publisher for onward transmission to the host, or to both publisher and host simultaneously, requiring a "go-ahead" message from the publisher to host. There was agreement that the ICEDIS e-journal message should provide the basis of an ICEDIS standard XML message, but that THINK, EBSCO and Swets would liaise to ensure that all required data elements were present, the format to ensure application to be interoperable with XML versions of the full ICEDIS suite of messages.)

• April, 2007, UKSG (Warwick) Conference Briefing
  Session. “Institutional Identifiers and the Journal Supply Chain” Efficiency Improvement Pilot" by Helen Henderson (Ringgold) PowerPoint

• 22 February, 2007. Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference
  Presentation, Atlanta, GA. “Institutional Identifiers in the Journal Supply Chainﾔ. Donald Chvatal (Ringgold) PowerPoint

• 13 November, 2006. Ringgold White Paper. “Institutional identifiers in the journal supply chain: a summary of why existing identifiers don’t measure up”. Don Chvatal, Helen Henderson, Ralph Shoffner.  Full document in MSWord format.
   
• 3 October, 2006. Frankfurt Book Faire, 28th International Supply Chain Specialists Meeting. “Learning From the Journals Supply Chain.” Helen Henderson (Ringgold) and Ramon Schrama (Swets). PowerPoint 

• September, 2006. Pilot Project Mid-Year Report. Mid Year Report (PDF)
   
• 3 April, 2006. UKSG (Warwick). Conference Briefing Session. “Institutional Identifiers and how they could streamline the supply chain”. Helen Henderson (Ringgold). PowerPoint 3 April 2006, UKSG (Warwick) Conference Briefing Session
   
• 7 October, 2005. Ringgold White Paper. Presented to the Institutional Stakeholders Meeting, Wash. DC. “Identify – An Authoritative Database of Institutional Identifiers.” Helen Henderson & Ralph Shoffner (Ringgold). Ringgold White Paper on Identifiers