International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

ISSN International Centre at Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

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.

New version of the ISSN Portal released on July 3rd, 2018

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.

The ISSN International Centre will present its new services at IFLA WLIC 2018

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.

 

ISSN Information and Training Session at the National Library of Malaysia (August 23-24, 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.

A model to link them all: IFLA LRM as a driver for harmonization of cataloguing standards related to serials and other continuing resources

Gordon Dunsire, Chair of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, and Clément Oury, Head of the Data, Network & Standards Department at the ISSN International Centre, will present their paper at IFLA WLIC 2018 during the session 074 Impact of recently approved IFLA standards – Committee on Standards (SI). This session will take place on 25 August 2018, in Ballroom 1, from 13:45 – 15:45.

The paper is available here: A model to link them all-IFLA LRM as a driver for harmonization of cataloguing standards-074-Dunsire-Oury-en

LATINDEX and the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin) to organize a round table discussion about digital journals and digital scholarship (Sept. 5th, 2018)

A round table discussion about digital journals and digital scholarship is organized on September 5th, 2018  by LATINDEX and the Ibero-American Institute (Berlin) at 6 p.m.

Entitled The digital journal from a cross-regional perspective, the following topics will be addressed:

– new formats for scientific publications,

– quality criteria for scientific publications,

– the interrelationships between publications and academic careers,

– the comparison between existing circumstances in Europe and Latin America.

Ana María Cetto, President of Latindex, and Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will contribute to the debate (in Spanish).

ISSN International Centre at ICSTI Conference (September 2018)

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) organises its annual conference, a two day event which includes ICSTI Member-to-Member presentations, two workshops, and the introduction of a regular session on innovations.

Monday 10 September is reserved to ICSTI members or by invitation. As an ICSTI member, the ISSN International Centre is invited to contribute to the Member-to-Member presentations. Nathalie Cornic (Data, Network & Standards Department) will present the new features of the ISSN Portal.

On Tuesday 11 September : the ITOC and TACC workshops —titled respectively The Scientific Library of the Future, and Discovering and Connecting Related Research Objects in the Modern Science Landscape—  are open community sessions. The draft programme is online.