NISO RP-16-2013中的推荐实践指南为电子期刊提供了指导 有助于确保电子期刊内容能够可靠地被发现、引用和发布的出版商和提供商， 并随着时间的推移被用户访问。电子期刊是全球学术基础设施的重要组成部分。原样 就印刷期刊而言，电子期刊及其相关元数据的内容成为 历史学术记录。纸质期刊和电子期刊上的文章引用构成了基础 进行了大量的学术研究。电子期刊的出版商和提供者对其网站的多样性设计深感自豪。 然而，这些网站如何呈现、识别和链接它们所展示的出版物是可以做到的 让最终用户发现文章并访问它们的任务变得简单、令人沮丧或彻底 毫无结果。有关问题已在“搜索最佳实践”中得到了很好的总结 电子期刊的介绍”（Regina Romano Reynolds和Cindy Hepfer，信息标准 《季刊》，第21卷，第2期（2009年春季），第18-24页。

The recommended practice guidelines presented in NISO RP-16-2013 offer guidance to e-journal publishers and providers that will help ensure that e-journal content can be reliably discovered, cited, and accessed by users over time.Electronic journals (e-journals) are a critical component of the global scholarly infrastructure. As is the case with print journals, the contents of e-journals and their related metadata become part of the historical scholarly record. Citations to articles in print journals, and now in e-journals, form the basis for much scholarly research.The publishers and providers of e-journals take great pride in the diverse designs of their websites. Yet how these websites present, identify, and link together the publications that they display can make the end user's task of discovering articles and accessing them easy, frustrating, or completely fruitless. The issues that are involved have been well summarized in "In Search of Best Practices for the Presentation of E-Journals" (Regina Romano Reynolds and Cindy Hepfer, Information Standards Quarterly, v. 21, issue 2 (Spring 2009), pp. 18-24).