The National ISBN-ISSN-CIP Centre, hosted by the National Library of Romania, participated in the BIBLIOPUBLICA International Conference organized by the National Association of Public Libraries in Romania, held on November 11-12, 2024. The conference theme was The Public Library Network – A Dynamic Infrastructure Supporting Sustainable Development Priorities.

Aurelia Persinaru, the coordinator of the National ISBN-ISSN-CIP Centre, delivered a presentation titled Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Libraries – Standardized Identification of Publications. It emphasizes the role of bibliographic products, catalogs and databases generated through standardized publication identification activities in facilitating information access. The presentation highlighted resources such as the Catalog of Romanian Publishers, the CIP Catalog and Bibliography, the ISSN Portal, and ROAD.

The meeting provided an excellent opportunity to share information on standardized identification of publications in Romania and its objectives, while also facilitating discussions on strategies to promote Romanian publishing output.

Look at the programme.

Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of ISSN USA and head of the ISSN Section at the Library of Congress, will participate in a webinar organized by NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group).

ISSN may seem a simple subject but behind those 8 characters there is a lot going on. Learn about some of the shadowy situations that ISSN staff handle, and the detective work they sometimes have to do, as well as some ISSN facts– just the facts, ma’am– that might surprise you. The presentation will also pull back the curtain on some bright and shiny things to come in the ISSN world and will leave room for questions.

This webinar will take place on December 04, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET.

Register: https://nasig.org/event-5910944

Due to performing a renewal of ISSN Japan’s system, there will be a delay in the following services of the Japanese National Centre for ISSN from December 23, 2024.

-Sending Advance Notices to inform of an assigned ISSN
* Please submit your application by December 16, 2024 if you need to receive an ISSN in 2024.
* Though the centre will continue to accept applications from December 17, 2024, Advance Notices to notify of assigned ISSNs may be sent in January 2025 or later.
– Sending Formal Notices of ISSNs
– Answers to inquiries by e-mail (issnjpn) and by telephone.

Thank you for your understanding.

As part of the partnership between the ISSN International Centre and Mir@bel, new information has been added to Mir@bel. The open data on the country of publication of journals is now automatically retrieved from the ISSN portal to enrich journal records in Mir@bel.

Take a look at the Mir@bel data production diagram to see all the enrichments made automatically. From now on, the data retrieved from the ISSN portal will be the ISSN-L and the journal’s country of publication.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, takes stock of the organisation’s development since 2014. In particular, she mentions the creation of the ISSN portal and the opening up of data, the expansion of the network notably with the accession of Austria, the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Federation, Peru and Ukraine, the implementation of a new data production tool accessible to all national centres and the collaboration with a wide range of partners such as DOAJ, Latindex, CLOCKSS, Portico, Rede Cariniana and Springer Nature, to name but a few. Read the full  article:

https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/expanding-horizons

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the International Centre, presented the Centre’s strategy at the General Assembly of the ISBN International Agency on 25 September. This was an opportunity to meet representatives of national ISBN centres from various countries, some of which are also national centres of the ISSN network.

PhDr. Beáta Katrincová was born on July 16, 1963 in Bratislava. She graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of librarianship and scientific information and started working at the Department of State Law as a documentarian. Since 1998, she worked in the University Library in Bratislava as the head of the ISSN National Agency. She worked in this position until retiring on disability in 2022. On October 6 2024, she died at the age of 61.

She built the ISSN National Agency in Slovakia from the very beginning and prepared a manual for Slovak periodical publishers. She spoke at various conferences and is the author of several articles. She translated the international standard STN ISO 3297 (International Standard Serial publications) into Slovak. For many years, she regularly participated at the Meeting of the Directors of the ISSN National Centres. She was also active in IFLA and worked as member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA SOCR (Serials and other continuing resources) section.

The worldwide expert community of ISSN Agencies appreciates the work of Mrs. Katrincová. She was respected positively and perceived not only in the environment of Slovak but also foreign librarianship very much, even after her retirement.

Her passing is not only a loss for the staff of the University Library in Bratislava, but also for the international community of ISSN agencies.

We will remember Beata for a long time and always with love.

The 49th ISSN Centre Directors’ Meeting is being held from October 21-24, 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia, at the kind invitation of the National Library of Tunisia.

The ISSN International Centre, located in Paris, France, has put together a dense agenda of presentations that will be attended by 60 participants from various continents.

This annual meeting of ISSN National Centre Directors is an opportunity for colleagues from ISSN Network Member Countries to exchange information on their activities, foster cooperation and participate in workshops.

Training will be provided by the ISSN International Centre team in the use of its up-to-date metadata production tool which has been upgraded regularly since its launch in June 2022. This tool is the production base underlying the ISSN portal, the global index for continuing resources (https://portal.issn.org).

A warm welcome to all delegates of the ISSN Network !

The full ISSN International Centre 2023 Activity Report is now available in English and French. The summarized report is available in 6 languages.

You can download the last activity reports here: https://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/our-mission/our-strategy/.

The Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) is organizing two events related to scientific publications. Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, has been invited by the Director of IBICT to present a paper on persistent identifiers and on the article she published in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Management.

The program for these conferences is available.