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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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.

Article also available in PDF: http://library.ifla.org/1462/1/114-bequet-en.pdf

ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service implemented by the ISSN International Centre to provide a free access to a selection of worldwide, multidisciplinary scholarly resources in open access that have been identified by the ISSN Network. This paper details ROAD background, its innovative concept and how it is positioned in the open access ecosystem.

Article available in PDF published within the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing on IOS Press.

EDINA and the ISSN International Centre are pleased to announce the publication of Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record. This statement outlines the actions now required to tackle the evolving challenges of preserving and ensuring the long-term accessibility of digital scholarship.

Mr Carlos Cifuentes Cobos, librarian, will participate in a training session from 10 to 14 October 2016 at the ISSN International Centre in Paris. The session is organized by the Data, Network & Standards department. Congratulations to our Colombian colleague and welcome!

The beginning of Argentina’s cooperation with Latindex System is framed in a series of institutional policies taken by the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) that hosts the ISSN National Center. The aim of these policies is to identify, record, select, produce and disseminate qualified information on Argentinian scientific journals looking forward to helping optimize its editorial quality and visibility. The activities of the Argentinian collection center, its results and the interaction with the community of editors are the focus of this article.

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The objectives, the current achievements and the future projects of the ISSN International Centre in the field of linked data will be presented at the IFLA satellite meeting “Data in libraries: the big picture” (University of Chicago, August 10^th, 2016).