Ms Rabab Rashwan, Director of ISSN Egypt and coordinator of the Egyptian National Publishing Committee, together with Ana María Cetto, Research Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and founding President of LATINDEX, participate in the Working Group on Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences supported by the Interacademy Partnership (IAP). This Working Group met virtually three times in June 2020 to discuss the project’s objectives and priorities, identify key resources and stakeholders, and agree the project plan going forward. The Group’s ongoing work will be divided into four main areas: (1) defining predatory practices, (2) gauging their extent and impact, (3) interventions to help combat them, and (4) an exploration of their root causes.

Keepers Registry (https://keepers.issn.org/) is the service that aims to inform the community of librarians and publishers about the actions taken by archiving agencies across the globe to preserve titles of digitised and born-digital serial publications bearing an eISSN, in order to promote long-term access to documentary resources, and thus consolidate scientific references for the world of research. In July 2019, ISSN International Centre took over from EDINA the Keepers Registry as a natural extension of the ISSN Portal’s services. This strategic decision turns the ISSN Portal into an irreplaceable source of information about periodicals, including their preservation by the partner archiving agencies.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN International Centre, outlines the work of the Keepers Registry – followed by interviews with four of its partner agencies: Portico (USA), Public Knowledge Project (Canada), the National Digital Preservation Program (China), and the Cariniana Network/IBICT (Brazil).

The Digital Preservation Coalition organized a 3-day virtual event to support the digital preservation community. On 22 September 2020, a presentation of Keepers Registry was scheduled, whose video recording is now available (starting at 2.15.45 in the timeline).

The Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict) held a new live for QuartaàsQuatro. The theme of the 5 August 2020 edition was “Performance of the International ISSN Centre and the National Centres of Latin America” and brought together Taina Batista, from the Brazilian ISSN Centre and Ibict researcher; Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre ; Carlos Cifuentes, from the Colombian ISSN Centre ; Guadalupe García de Rivera, from the ISSN’s Panamanian Centre; and Carlos Norberto Authier, from the Argentine Centre of ISSN. The national centres invited shared their experiences in their countries with the ISSN network.

Watch the video on YouTube or access the presentations. [in Portuguese and Spanish]

The draft of the sixth edition of ISO 3297 was put to a vote of ISO/TC46/SC9 member countries this summer. 25 out of 30 ISO/TC46/SC9 P-members have approved the draft. The sixth edition will be published in October 2020 by ISO after review of the final comments.

Nathalie Cornic, Head of Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will attend OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020, to be held from Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 September 2020. The full program is now available.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is organizing a 3-day virtual event to support the digital preservation community. On 22 September 2020, a presentation of Keepers Registry is scheduled. Do not miss it and register at https://www.dpconline.org/events/wemissipres.

See the #WeMissiPRES program in full.

Deanna White, Project Officer, and Mikael Wettertrom, Metadata Specialist, will attend the virtual meeting RDA in Europe, which will be held on 15 September 2020. Originally intented to be a satellite meeting from the cancelled WLIC2020, the meeting will revise case studies on adaptations of the new 3R RDA, in its first part, and will address some practical approaches to RDA (application profiles use, RDA and MARC..).

Please register (free) and access the programme.

This event is organized by IFLA Cataloguing Section, jointly with the RDA Steering Committee and the European RDA Interest (EURIG).

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Created in France in 2009 by library and documentation professionals, Mir@bel aims to enhance the content of scientific periodicals accessible online. Mir@bel facilitates access to journals by providing links to full text online, abstracts, summaries or article indexing and allows you to bounce back to many complementary sites.

The ISSN Portal exposes its data in linked open data. From now on, nearly 15,600 records of the Mir@bel portal are linked to the records of the corresponding resources of the ISSN Portal.

Discover these records: https://portal.issn.org/?q=api/search&search[]=MUST=srcname=MIRABEL