In 2025, ISSN International Centre will celebrate its jubilee. This will be an opportunity to retrace with you our fifty-year history.

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The Keepers Registry, managed by the ISSN International Centre since 2019, monitors preservation for digital and digitized serials, including scholarly journals. It aggregates data from sixteen partner archiving agencies, covering around 70,000 titles as of November 2022. The ISSN Centre is developing a service for librarians to upload journal metadata and retrieve preservation data, including preserving agencies, covered years, and completeness of archived content. A case study from the University of California, Davis revealed only 40% of its collection is preserved by Keepers.

This article authored by Gaelle Bequet (ISSN International Centre), Michelle Polchow (University of California, Davis) and Shannon Keller (U.S. Department of State), was presented at NASIG 2023 Conference whose proceedings are published by the University of Michigan.

Innocent Azilan (Institut méditerranéen des sciences de l’information et de la communication, France), Hanae Hroul (Ecole des Sciences de l’Information, Morocco), Nadia Barnoussi (Ecole des Sciences de l’Information, Morocco) and Pascal Aventurier (IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France) presented their research on the internationalisation and visibility of African Open Access journals at the Open Science Conference in the South, held in South Africa from 9 to 11 December.

This research has been made possible by the availability of data from the ISSN portal. The programme of the conference is available.

In Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing, Nature’s editorial board calls on the global research community to take steps to better preserve the growing number of research papers being produced each year, with a particular focus on at-risk publications.

Citing a study that says at least 2 million research articles are not being preserved, the editorial highlights three ways to help address the challenge.

The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme, launched by the Government of India, is a groundbreaking initiative designed to provide nationwide access to the latest scholarly research articles and academic journals. This initiative aims to foster scientific research and innovation by offering affordable, country-wide access to high-quality academic content. Through ONOS, students, faculty, and researchers in universities, colleges, and research organizations will benefit from seamless access to valuable resources that drive innovation in various fields.

As an adopter of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and a supporter of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, DOAJ is committed to making its metadata openly available for the community’s use. DOAJ’s metadata is reused across library systems, discovery services, search engines and research tools that help identify quality open-access journals.

In 2024, DOAJ has received sustaining support from Digital Science, EBSCO, NERAC, OA.Works. OCLC, OurResearch, SciFree, Sirsi Dynix and others. Their support contributes directly to DOAJ’s work in evaluating journals and curating metadata.

In a landmark analysis of the future of scholarly communication, Ithaka S+R has released a new report, A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing, investigating the profound effects of generative AI (GenAI) on academic publishing. The report, supported by STM Solutions and leading publishers such as the American Chemical Society, IEEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group, and Wiley, highlights the rapid evolution of GenAI and its potential to reshape research workflows, operational strategies, and communication processes.

The National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket) has introduced a new Libris catalog, utilizing Bibframe 2.0 and linked open data. This format enhances the web’s understanding of library collections, allowing for easier access and highlighting of rich information. As the first national library to switch to Bibframe 2.0, Libris will provide efficient cataloguing and a comprehensive view of library collections.

The Academic Publishing in Europe conference will celebrate two decades of achievement and innovation in the scholarly publishing world around the topic Scholarly Communication: Reframing the Dialogue.

View the program here  and get your ticket here!