Gracias a la implementación de la nueva herramienta interna de catalogación ISSN Plus (ISSN+), la cual complementa y optimiza las funcionalidades del Portal ISSN, el servicio que brinda el Centro Nacional ISSN Perú (CN-ISSN) a través de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP) ha mejorado respecto a los registros y metadatos que describen a las publicaciones seriadas peruanas y demás recursos continuos. Una de las principales ventajas que ofrece ISSN Plus (ISSN+), es la actualización casi inmediata de los datos en el portal ISSN (https://portal.issn.org/) respecto a los recursos que han sido asignados con un número ISSN. El CN-ISSN, que funciona en la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú desde el año 2021, es uno de los centros nacionales de la Red ISSN que empezó a utilizar con éxito esta novedosa herramienta.

The place of publication determines the ISSN Centre responsible for identification. However, when a publisher operates in several countries, an agreement may be reached between this multinational publisher and the involved ISSN Centres so that all requests for identification are handled by one centre. The ISSN Network has created a public list identifying more than 300 multinational publishers. These publishers have been spotted through the ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org) data. The ISSN International Centre works with the National Centres on this list of publishers to determine their responsibility for identifying the publications of these publishers. The list also contains information on the names by which these publishers are known and a mapping of relationships between publishers. It also contains a link to the ISNI and VIAF databases. This data is managed by the ISSN Network in an internal wiki that will be updated regularly. Projects to disseminate the list more widely will be launched shortly.

This paper by Branka Marijanović and Hrvoje Stanĉić, based at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, examines digital archiving policies of open access electronic scholarly journals in Central Europe. They studied a sample of 1,589 journals registered with DOAJ and found that 69% of them have an archiving policy. Portico and national libraries are the most widely used archives. 19% of the preserved journals are archived in more than one archive. A comparison with Asian journals show that they are less archived than Central European ones.

Portico and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) are partners of the ISSN International Centre as active archiving agencies contributing to Keepers Registry. In 2018, Portico and the KB worked together to establish an online replica of the Portico archive at the KB. They have now agreed to extend this hosting arrangement.

Hathi Trust has partnered with Athenaeum 21, a long-standing digital strategy and technology planning consultancy and collaborator in the library and cultural heritage community. The 3-part collaborative visioning process will help Hathi Trust connect with people throughout their member libraries — subject librarians, deans, collection managers, directors — as well as with HathiTrust staff and industry peers through the end of 2023.

PID Network Germany launched March 2023. The aim of the project is to establish a network of already existing and currently forming actors around the persistent identification of persons, organizations, publications, resources, and infrastructures in the field of digital communication in science and culture. Project partner institutions are DataCite, the German National Library, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, Bielefeld University Library, and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).

In this article, Sabina Leonelli questions the idea that science consists in the accumulation of facts, methods and insights, whose free circulation, scaffolded by technologically sophisticated infrastructures, suffices to guarantee research progress. She contends that this view of research is misleading and unrealistic, and that related understandings of openness are unlikely to deliver the epistemic benefits associated to the OS movement in the long term. This is not because the technologically mediated sharing of resources is not relevant to scientific development, but rather because sharing does not constitute a necessary starting point nor a sufficient condition for conducting reliable and responsible open science.

The UNESCO Open Science Toolkit is designed to support the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The Toolkit is a set of guides, policy briefs, factsheets and indexes. Each piece is a living resource updated to reflect new developments and the status of implementation of the Recommendation. Elements of this toolkit are developed in collaboration with UNESCO Open Science partners or through discussions with and inputs from the members of the UNESCO Working Groups on Open Science.

According to the ESAC initiative at Max Planck Digital Library, there is significant market concentration in academic publishing, with just a handful of publishers accounting for the majority of the scholarly articles published globally. ESAC supplies current data on market shares, transformative agreements and a comparison between countries regarding the openness of scholarly articles.

This article aims at providing a comparison of the proportion of OA publishing as represented in two major bibliometric databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Dimensions, and assesses how the choice of database affects the measurement of OA across different countries. They take into account the various categories of OA publishing, i.e. gold, green, bronze, as well as hybrid. They conclude that Dimensions indexes journals published by platforms developed in the South—AJOL (Africa), AmeliCA (Latin America), and SciELO (Brazil)— and thus has the potential to be a more suitable platform for an inclusive measurement of OA uptake, especially of publications by authors from outside North America, Europe, and Central Asia.

The Cambridge Open Equity Initiative is a pilot designed to support authors in low- and middle-income countries who wish to publish their research open access but do not have access to funding. Authors will be eligible from July 1st 2023. No application is required and authors are automatically recognised as eligible for open access publishing once their paper has been accepted. Authors are able to submit their paper to all of Cambridge’s gold and hybrid journals at no direct cost to them or their institution. All original research, including research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports are eligible.

The National Open Access Agreement in France is a “read and publish” agreement which was established in January 2017 for five years. In 2022, it was extended for a further five years. EDP Sciences is the publisher for the agreement and articles published under the agreement contribute to the growing proportion of its open access content. The 70 members include the majority of French universities with a science focus, most national research organisations, e.g. Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA) and Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm).

The Global Summit on Diamond Open Access (Cumbre Global sobre Acceso Abierto Diamante) is a series of hybrid and multilingual events. From 23 to 27 October 2023, the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access will take place in Toluca, México. As part of this summit, the second Conference on Diamond Open Access will take place, which will bring together the community of endorsers of the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, consisting of researchers, editors, universities, research funding and performing organisations, academic libraries, learned societies, and policy makers from around the world who are working to strengthen the Diamond Open Access ecosystem. A free community webinar will take place on 18 September 2023.

In this 1-hour webinar, Professor Kamel Belhamel (Managing editor of DOAJ), will explore the open access landscape in Northern Africa. The first half of the webinar will look at the barriers faced by scholarly publications when looking to develop and implement open access publishing practices. In the second half of this webinar, Professor Kamel will discuss the benefits for open access journals of being indexed in DOAJ, give some tips on DOAJ evaluation metrics, and explain what editorial boards can do to maximise their chances of acceptance into the index.

Jisc is organizing a webinar about PIDs and the Knowledge Exchange report on Tuesday 23 May, 2 – 3pm GMT/ 3 – 4pm CET/ 4 – 5pm EET. The introductory presentation will focus on the report, the socio-technical approach and the case studies. The second presentation will address the key recommendations of the report. The programme and the registration form will be posted next week on Jisc website.

The European FAIR-IMPACT project will tackle the relationship between PIDs  and data citation, semantic artefacts and related services. The program and the registration form for this webinar to be held on Thursday 25 May 2023 12:00 – 14:00 CEST are online.