The ISSN IC will participate in the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) to be held in Lisbon on the 20th and 21st September, 2017.  Community and collaboration is at the heart of open access publishing, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is excited to gather all stakeholders working in open access around the world, noticeably publishers and librarians. Panel topics this year are: The market for APCs; Open infrastructure in scholarly communications; Research evaluation and assessment; Open peer review in both journal publishing and in open access books and monographs publishing.

The preliminary program is available. Registration is still open.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN IC, will chair the session about Epistemological and theoretical foundations of information of the 11^th Biennial Conference of the French ISKO Chapter (International Society for Knowledge Organization) which will be held on 11 and 12 July 2017 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The overarching theme of the conference is Epistemological and theoretical foundations of Information – Documentation science: a tribute to francophone pioneers.

The programme is online.

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the Annual Conference of the American Library Association which takes place in Chicago, IL, 22-27 June 2017. On Saturday 24 June, there will be a presentation of the latest news regarding the revision of ISO 3297 – ISSN at NISO Annual Meeting and Standards Update. On Sunday 25 June, Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the US ISSN Centre, will speak at the session The Once and Future ISSN organized by the Continuing Resources Cataloging and Standards Forum (ALCTS CRS).

The Annual Conference about standardization in the information and documentation sector will take place at the National Library of France on Friday 23 June 2017. Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre and President of the ISO Technical Committee 46, will deliver the opening address together with Pierre Fuzeau, President of the mirror French Committee 46.

Programme and registration on http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2017/a.jp_170623_afnor.html .

Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre have been initiating a centralized process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to serial publications of Springer Nature. The new process standardizes and automates the way unique identifiers are requested, before their publication, for periodicals and book series published under the various imprints of Springer Nature. Springer Nature thus has only one point of contact for all new ISSN assignments. Springer Nature will get ISSNs more quickly, and the ISSN International Centre will immediately share the new data with ISSN National Centres via the ISSN Register.

Set online in 2002, Latindex Catalogo was created as a referral service specializing in editorial quality criteria applied to the evaluation of Spanish journals in Science and Technology. Those journals that are compliant with a minimum of the criteria established by Latindex are included in the catalog. Editorial features like content, editorial guidelines, and online presentation are checked. Since May 2017, online journals must have their own e-ISSN, additionally to their previously assigned print ISSN. This mandatory amendment was added to the new list of 38 editorial quality criteria decided by a group of 4 scholars members of the Latindex network, and approved during the last Latindex technical meeting held in September 2016.

PRESS_OO is a formal ontology designed to represent the bibliographic information about continuing resources, and more specifically about serials (journals, newspapers, magazines, etc.). It is an extension of the FRBR_OO model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records – Object Oriented). FRBR_OO is in turn is an extension of CIDOC CRM, the conceptual reference model for cultural heritage information. It has been developed by a working group made up of representatives of the ISSN International Centre, the ISSN Review Group and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and is currently maintained by a dedicated Review Group under the auspices of IFLA Cataloguing section. PRESSoo version 1.0 underwent a world-wide review in 2015. The responses were studied and changes were made to the model in light of these responses. The current version of PRESSoo is version 1.3.

The annual plenary meeting of ISO Technical Committee 46 Information-Documentation was held in Pretoria (South Africa) from 22 to 26 May 2017 at the kind invitation of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). The revision of ISO 15836 (Dublin Core), the publication of the revised ISO 5127 (Information and documentation – Vocabulary), the preservation of digital records were among the main topics to be addressed during this meeting.

The ISSN International Centre participated in the 19th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat about the future of libraries, publishing, collections, and scholarship from the 19 to 21st of April 2017. This year’s theme was The Evolving Scholarly Environment. The 2017 Fiesole Retreat examined new technologies and business models, as well as the re-emerging role of collection development and librarianship in the continuing digital evolution of the scholarly ecosystem.

The presentations are now available online.

Data exchange between the Norwegian ISSN national centre at the National Library in Oslo and the ISSN International Centre in Paris is now based (since March 2017) on the OAI-PMH protocol. In this new framework, ISSN cataloguers in Norway directly produce ISSN records in the cataloguing environment of their institution; these records are automatically exposed through a dedicated “ISSN set” in MarcXML (Marc 21) through the library OAI-PMH server. This “ISSN set” is regularly harvested by the ISSN International Centre in order to feed directly the ISSN Register with the output.

This new workflow is similar to the one already set up last year at the German ISSN Centre at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) in Frankfurt and paves the way for more streamlined contributions to the ISSN Register from other countries of the ISSN network.