Exploitation of the open access model by unscrupulous publishers can seem a threat to the future of scholarly publishing. But the situation is not as simple as bad guys vs. good guys. This is rather a natural outgrowth of the ease of publishing on the internet and the rise of OA publishing.
Regina Reynolds, Director of the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress, presented two papers: one about the project the ISSN International Centre and ProQuest are currently engaged in ; the second about predatory publishing practices. For more information
ISSN International Centre will attend the 30th Guadalajara International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro) at booth GG26 from 27 to 30 November 2016. The featured Guest of Honor this year is Latin America.
The German ISSN Centre is hosted by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. So far, ISSN have only been assigned by the ISSN German Centre upon requests from publishers. From December 2016 on, requests from publishers will still be processed. Furthermore, library staff employed at the DNB section for Acquisition and Cataloguing will assign ISSN to serials entering national collections via legal deposit. These serials will be recorded by DNB staff in the Zeitschriftsdatenbank, the union catalogue for serials holdings supported by 4,000 libraries across Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Serial records with ISSN will subsequently be retrieved and processed by ISSN Germany before they are provided to the ISSN International Centre via OAI-PMH. This challenging project is led by ISSN Germany in close cooperation with the ISSN International Centre.
For more details, read the paper Projekt ISSN-Integration by Christian Schütz.
From November 7th to 11th, 2016, the RDA Steering Committee held its annual meeting in Frankfurt, at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Christian Schütz, Head of German ISSN Centre, reported on the activities of the ISSN Network.
The ISSN International Centre has launched a tender procedure for the development of a new web portal and a customer extranet.
Official representatives of Latin American countries gathered on the 31th of August, at the headquarters of the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), to attend the second preparatory meeting of the 41st Meeting of Directors of ISSN network. The preparatory meeting was meant to speed up and confirm the participation of Latin American countries that have not ensured their presence at the event to be held in Brasilia from 7 to 11 November 2016.
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Russian publishers answered a survey earlier this year about their needs and expectations regarding ISSN services. Representatives from the ISSN International Centre and the ISSN Russian Centre presented the findings of their survey and the on-going projects to develop their services for the publishing industry and the library community.
The meeting took place on September 8, 2016, at Moscow International Book Fair.
Gaëlle Béquet (ISSN International Centre) and Christian Schuetz (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, ISSN Germany) presented the strategy of the ISSN network at ISBN AGM. They also had meetings with Austrian colleagues from OBVSG (Die Österreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service GmbH) and Hauptverbandes des Österreichischen Buchhandels about the creation of ISSN Austria.
The advent of Open Access publishing has been tainted by questionable practices favouring profit-generating activities over the advancement of sciences. The ISSN network has been faced since 2012 with ISSN requests lacking correct and verifiable information preventing the unambiguous identification of the publication. Some guidelines have been devised to handle these flawed requests.
The ISSN network advocates some educational action towards authors, editors and publishers to improve the quality of publications.
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