The ISSN International Centre will participate in the 2018 Charleston Library Conference (U.S.A.) to promote its new services to librarians and publishers. The Director of the ISSN International Centre will give two presentations (Nov. 7^th and 8^th) focusing on the new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (https://journaltransfer.issn.org) and the implementation of standards.

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the 2018 SemWebPro Conference. The Head of the Data, Network and Standards Dpt will make a presentation highlighting the ISSN Portal, its data model and its services. This presentation will be the opportunity to address use cases to improve the description of continuing resources in the web of data.

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The programme is online.

In October 2018, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers, published its fifth edition of the report entitled The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing.

The 2018 STM Report mentions the ISSN as the key standard for the identification and description of continuing resources. The ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org) and the new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS) hosted by the ISSN International Centre (https://journaltransfer.issn.org) are also featured in the 2018 STM Report.

The 43rd meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres will be held from 18 to 21 September 2018 at the kind invitation of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, United States of America.

ISSN International Centre Sales team will be happy to meet you at FBF International Library Centre, ILC– hall 4.2, stand N 75 (16-17 October 2019).

Nathalie Cornic, Head of Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will participate in the ICEDIS meeting organized by  EDItEUR ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

By early October 2018, the National Library of Nigeria will launch a new Online ISSN platform to speed up and follow ISSN publishers’ requests for ISSN assignments to Nigerian serial publications.

A new version of the ISSN Portal was released on July 3rd, 2018.

This version provides the following improvements:

• Integration of ROAD into the ISSN Portal. The URL of ROAD does not change (https://road.issn.org).
• Addition of new indexes and facets: notably “Covered by” or “OA resource type”.
• Provision of a version designed for mobile devices (smartphones).
• Addition of a new download format: CSV.

A presentation about new ISSN services and the new version of the ISSN portal will be given by the ISSN International Centre team at IFLA Expo Pavillon / Tech Lab on 26 August 2018 at noon.

The Sales & Communication team will welcome you at booth B130 for a demo everyday from 25 to 28 August 2018.

With the support of the National Library of Malaysia, the ISSN International Centre is organizing an information and training session for 15 representatives of Asian ISSN National Centres in Kuala Lumpur prior to 2018 IFLA Conference. Colleagues from Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will come together with the Director of the ISSN International Centre to discuss the latest hot topics impacting the ISSN Network.