Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will participate to a panel session entitled “What criteria can identify ethical publishing and publications?” during the STM Week 2015 (1st-3rd December, London).

Overview and perspectives of the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, ROAD, by Nathalie Cornic, ISSN International Centre.

The presentation has been made by Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre and Laurie Kaplan, Content Business Analyst Lead, ProQuest. It describes the 2015 pilot project and ongoing cooperation between their respective organizations to identify active titles without ISSN. This cooperation is meant to use Ulrich’s Periodicals database as the initial resource.

This session will describe the 2015 pilot project and ongoing cooperation between the International ISSN Centre based in Paris and ProQuest to identify active titles without ISSN. The project is using Ulrich’s Periodicals Database as the initial resource.

The speakers are Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the International ISSN Centre and Laurie Kaplan, Content Business Analyst Lead, ProQuest.

Cross-industry campaign launches to help researchers make informed choices about where to publish

This campaign will provide information for researchers, through an online hub at www.thinkchecksubmit.org, about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their research.

On the 7th September 2015 EDINA and the ISSN International Centre hosted ‘Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving’. Organised as part of the Jisc-supported Keepers Extra project, the conference focused on exploring the international challenges of enhancement and promotion of preservation of scholarly resources. The conference report is now available.

On this occasion, Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, provided an overview of the ISSN and its place in the overall archival landscape.

This study day about ISSN facing the digital transition is organised by the French ISSN national centre, together with ISSN IC and ABES, the French bibliographic Agency for Higher Education. ISSN 40th anniversary is the opportunity to remind and illustrate the role of ISSN for reliable identification, access and preservation. The future revision of the 3297 ISO standard represents also the opportunity to gather the different stakeholders to discuss issues such as metadata production, workflows and exchange, online resources identification rules and interoperability of identifiers, at a time when linked data is becoming a reality.

This article, cowritten by Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Center, and presented during the IFLA Conference 2015, shows the essential relationship that exists between the communities involved in bibliographic description that has culminated recently with the work done on PRESSoo.

Latindex is a regional consortium created in 1995 and which manages databases about scientific and professional journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The main catalogue provides a comprehensive coverage of serial resources both print and online with approximately 24,000 titles. A subset of this catalogue –about 8,300 titles- identifies quality journals sorted out according to editorial criteria defined by Latindex. Latindex also provides access to 6,752 digital journals categorized by themes, regions and countries. Latindex has been a partner of the ISSN International Centre for many years and both will renew their cooperation agreement during the 21st meeting of Latindex that will take place in Madrid  (Sept.29th to Oct. 2nd 2015).