The ISSN International Centre will participate in UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, to be held in Telford, United Kingdom.

Visit Booth 55 and learn about ISSN novelties.

ISSN Japan is hosted by the National Diet Library and our colleagues have recently updated the web page in English about the role and the activities of ISSN Japan.

Regina Romano Reynolds, Head of the US ISSN Centre, will speak at NASIG 2019 (5-8 June 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA). During the session Minding Your Ps and Qs: Predatory Journals, Piracy, and Quality Questions, Regina Romano Reynolds will recount the experiences of U.S. ISSN staff on the front lines of dealing with the full range of new publishers and will explore the broader questions raised by the predatory publishing phenomenon.

Hosted by Casalini Libri and the European University Institute, and managed by the Charleston Company, 2019 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat ‘s program focuses on Open Science, Plan S and Open Scholarship. The Director of the ISSN International Centre will participate in discussions about the future of libraries, publishing, collections, and scholarship which are critical for the development of ISSN IC future strategy.

Renata Cozonac, Coordinator of ISBN, ISMN, and ISSN systems in Moldova, was appointed Director of the National Book Chamber of the Republic of Moldova on February 25th, 2019. She will carry on her international activities within the ISSN Network.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will chair the 2019 ISO TC46 Annual Meeting hosted by Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. The program includes a meeting of ISO TC46/SC9/WG5 experts who will discuss the outcomes of the 2019 DIS ballot regarding the ISSN standard ISO 3297.

The ISSN International Centre has selected the UK-based company CiberResearch to carry out an advisory mission on the definition of its strategy for the next five years.

Nathalie Cornic, Head of Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will participate in ICEDIS meeting and deliver a presentation on the new ISSN portal.

As usual, EDItEUR and ICEDIS hold a meeting on serials standards and related topics on the final day of the UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition. This meeting will held on Wednesday 10th April 2019, from 1.15pm to 4.00pm in the Wenlock 2 room of the Telford International Centre. In addition to discussion of ONIX-PC, ONIX for Books, Thema and other standards managed by EDItEUR, a wider look will be taken at related standards initiatives and recent developments in persistent identifiers and open linked data.

The ISSN International Centre will participate in UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, to be held in Telford, United Kingdom.

Visit Booth 55 and learn about ISSN novelties.

The ISSN has been added to the directory of identifiers managed by EMBL-EBI on identifiers.org. The compact form of the ISSN identifier is ISSN: 1234-5678. The N2T resolver on identifiers.org refers to the ISSN portal page where the publication record is available.