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

ISSN IC will be present at ElPub in June 2016

Nathalie Cornic, Deputy Head of the Data, Network and Standards department, will present a poster at the 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB). The title of the presentation is: ROAD: the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources to Promote Open Access Worldwide. The conference will investigate the position and power of players and agents, and aims to sharpen the view for current challenges and ways forward to reshape the publishing system.

ISSN IC at the 18th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat

The Fiesole Collection Development Retreats Series 2016: Presentations now available!

Discover the papers presented at the Fiesole conference organized by Casalini Libri from 6th to 8th April 2016. Gaëlle Béquet (ISSN IC), Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Graham Stone (University of Huddersfield) were the speakers invited by Helen Henderson (Information Power Ltd) to give a talk at the special session about identifiers on April 7th.

Presentations will be soon on ISSN IC Slideshare: http://fr.slideshare.net/ISSNIC40/presentations

Compartir buenas prácticas en el trabajo fortalece centros nacionales de ISSN

El pasado 7 de enero de 2016, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, tuvo lugar el encuentro entre los Centros Nacionales de ISSN, argentino y colombiano.  El motivo de esta reunión fue establecer lazos de cooperación y compartir experiencias de trabajo, entre otros temas más de colegaje. Como resultado de esta reunión, el Centro Colombiano está implementando una jornada gratuita, sobre Sistemas de creación y gestión de publicaciones seriadas en línea, con énfasis en Open Journal Systems.

A través de una capacitación a los participantes para interactuar con el sistema de publicación en línea (OJS), se mostrará como contribuir a la preservación de publicaciones seriadas en soporte papel, fomentando la migración a formatos electrónicos que facilitan su preservación y consulta a través de la Web, utilizando el código ISSN.

ISSN IC Director at Fiesole Collection Development Retreat

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN IC, will speak in the 18th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat which will take place in Fiesole (Italy) from 6th to 8th April, 2016. This year’s topic will address issues in digital scholarly communication and accessibility of research data. On 7th April, a session will focus on discovery tools and data identification. Gaëlle Béquet’s speach will be intitled: “ISSN: A key identifier poised for innovation”. It will give the ISSN International Centre an opportunity to present its innovative strategy. More details can be found at http://libraries.casalini.it/retreat/

The Cariniana Network joins the Keepers Registry

The Cariniana Network is a distributed preservation network,  which provides long term preservation and access for Brazil’s scientific publications. The Cariniana Network’s parent organisation is the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), which plays a key role in promoting effective production, management and dissemination of information. In less than three years since it was created, the network already has around one thousand journals preserved.

About the Cariniana Network (English/Portuguese)

The latest issue of Ciência da Informação is online

Ciência da Informação,  the Brazilian Information Science journal published by IBICT (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia / Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology), has just released a thematic issue about scientific mediation of information, in collaboration with ANCIB researchers (Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação / National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Information Science).

The German National ISSN Centre has reorganized its ISSN workflows

The major change is that every publication in Germany falling under the scope of ISSN and catalogued by the German National Library (Deutsche National Bibliothek) will automatically receive an ISSN as part of the normal cataloguing workflow. This new workflow will start during Summer 2016.

During the workshop organized at the DNB in March, 2016 (on specific invitation), the major publishers and relevant stakeholders will be informed about the changes in the ISSN workflow. There will also be a general discussion about the use of ISSN by major publishers and their needs.