Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the US ISSN Centre, attended the ALA Midwinter meeting, held in Boston in January. Please click on those links to learn more: ALA Midwinter 2016

http://2016.alamidwinter.org/

ISSN International Centre and ProQuest Work Together to Improve Electronic Loading of Serial Titles Worldwide

Learn more with this link: http://www.proquest.com/about/news/2016/ISSN-and-ProQuest-Work-to-Improve-Electronic-Loading-of-Serial-Titles.html

The ISSN International Centre and the Spanish ISSN National Centre have recently completed a common project of semi-automated retrospective assignment of ISSN to bibliographic records from the Spanish Serials Union Catalogue (Catálogo Colectivo de Publicaciones Periódicas), which is managed at the National Library of Spain (which also hosts the ISSN National Centre).

More than 10,737 ISSN records were thus added to the ISSN Register. The records initially only had an internal identification number (ISXN), structurally similar to the ISSN but with no external recognition. Assigning retrospectively ISSN numbers to these records allowed for a confirmed international identification of the publications concerned.  Thanks to this process, the coverage of the ISSN Register as an authoritative international reference source was also improved.

More details about the different steps of the project can be found in the attached summary report (in Spanish) produced by the Spanish ISSN National Centre.

The Statistics of the ISSN Register for 2015 are available. The ISSN Network processed more than 70 000 new records last year, a remarkable progress ! Thank you to all the Member countries for their efforts and involvement!

To see those statistics, please go to “Understanding the ISSN” section of our website, and then to the page “The International Register” : https://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/the-issn-international-register/

Statistics on ROAD are also available on the ROAD section

The last IFLA Metadata newsletter includes an article about the 40th anniversary of ISSN network, making a balance of the past and envisaging the future.

http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/classification-and-indexing/newsletters/metadata-newsletter-20160120.pdf

On 20^th January, 2016, ROAD, the Directory of Scholarly Open Access Resources, has been presented at UCL Centre for Publishing / Department of Information Studies / University College London, in the framework of a seminar around Discovery and Discoverability.

The topic was enhancing discovery systems, how new tools are being deployed and used and how to make their content more findable. ROAD presentation made part of the case studies highlighted.

ROAD presentation is sharable on ISSN IC Slideshare.

The ISSN National Centre of the Russian Federation has opened. This centre is located in the Russian Book Chamber in Moscow, managed by  the Russian news agency,  ITAR-TASS.

Welcome to the ISSN network !

More information and contacts via this link: http://www.bookchamber.ru/issn.html