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.

In the framework of the cooperation agreement between ISSN-IC and Latindex, the Uruguayan Association of Scholarly Journals / Asociación Uruguaya de Revistas Académicas (AURA) has released an announcement about ISSN-IC services, the ISSN international Register and ROAD, the Directory of Open Access Resources.

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/

New project combines efforts to identify and assign missing ISSNs

The outcome of the project will be a huge benefit to librarians, publishers, and vendors as more serial titles will have ISSNs registered in the ISSN International Register compiled by the ISSN network and in the Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory® and Ulrichsweb™ references.

The ISSN network, that currently comprises 89 national centres and the International Centre based in Paris, celebrated its 40th anniversary throughout the year 2015. Have a look at all the events organized.

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)

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 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.

Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the US ISSN Centre, attended the ALA Midwinter meeting, held in Boston in January. She presented the challenge of change posed by the forthcoming revision of the ISSN standard.

The ISSN International Centre and the Spanish ISSN National Centre have recently completed a common project of semi-automated retrospective assignment of ISSN to bibliographic records from the Spanish Serials Union Catalogue (Catálogo Colectivo de Publicaciones Periódicas), which is managed at the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España). As a result, more than 10,737 ISSN records were added to the ISSN Register.