Début 2022,  en s’appuyant sur les données de la base Mir@bel et sur la Base de Connaissance BACON, un corpus d’environ 700 titres étrangers en libre accès ne possédant pas d’eISSN était identifié.

Ce chantier, qui vise à améliorer l’identification des ressources en libre accès, et éventuellement de leur généalogie, en demandant leur numérotation ISSN, concerne un large périmètre, soit 88 pays et 75 Centres Nationaux différents. Un an et demi après son lancement, voici un bilan de l’avancée de ce chantier au long cours.

At the beginning of 2022, using data from the Mir@bel database and the BACON Knowledge Base, a corpus of around 700 international open access titles that do not have an eISSN was identified.

This project, which aims to improve the identification of open access resources, and possibly their genealogy, by requesting their ISSN assignment, covers a wide area, i.e. 88 countries and 75 different ISSN National Centres. A year and a half after its launch, here is a progress report on this long-term project.

The Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), that hosts ISSN Brazil, will present the Pinakes Project on November 28th, from 9am to 12pm. Pinakes Project aims at modernizing Ibict’s traditional bibliographic services and building its information and technological infrastructure. This event is free and open to the public. It will take place in the Auditorium of the Socioeconomic Center of the UFSC.

Registrations should be made at https://www.even3.com.br/servicos-bibliograficos-ibict/.

Thanks to the African Journals On Line (AJOL) team for posting the video of the webinar about ISSNs and eISSNs. If you wish to learn why ISSN are important for your publications, go ahead and watch it. The webinar lasts one hour and it is worth your time! https://lnkd.in/eE8GGbeA

The 2023 Charleston Conference will be held both in person (Nov. 6 – 10) and online (Nov. 27 – Dec. 1).

On Nov. 9, Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Michelle Polchow, Electronic Resource Librarian at University of California, Davis, will give their presentation about Submit.Retrieve.Reuse, the new service that helps libraries and content providers to check their journal metadata. Agenda and registration available here : https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/.

The 48th ISSN Centre Directors’ Meeting is being held from October 23-26, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, at the kind invitation of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque royale (KBR).

The ISSN International Centre, located in Paris, France, has put together a dense agenda of presentations that will be attended by 60 participants from various continents.

This annual meeting of ISSN National Centre Directors is an opportunity for colleagues from ISSN Network Member Countries to exchange information on their activities, foster cooperation and participate in workshops.

Training will be provided by the ISSN International Centre team in the use of its up-to-date metadata production tool which has been upgraded regularly since its launch in June 2022. This tool is the production base underlying the ISSN portal, the global index for continuing resources (https://portal.issn.org).

A warm welcome to all delegates of the ISSN Network !

Christian Schütz, Head of Collection Development and Media Acquisition, Director of the German ISSN Centre, explains the missions of the German ISSN centre, the scope of an ISSN assignment, the notion of key title and the practical usage of an ISSN.

The German National Library’s diverse areas of responsibility also include the national ISSN centre for Germany. If you need an ISSN for a continuing resource published in Germany, then the German centre is responsible. A detailed overview of all publications that can receive an ISSN can be found on the information pages of the national ISSN center for Germany. The assigned ISSN is documented in the ISSN portal, the journal database and the catalog of the German National Library together with a bibliographic description. We therefore recommend checking an ISSN in the DNB catalog: https://portal.dnb.de/ or the ISSN portal, where you can find the current bibliographic description.

At IFLA WLIC 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (21-25 August), our Sales, Marketing and Communication Team was pleased to welcome several colleagues from the ISSN Network on our booth. We had conversations about ISSN assignments and questionable journals. Our subscribers enquired about ISSN linked and the update of the ISSN Portal. Our communication focused on Keepers Registry and our new service Submit-Retrieve-Reuse. Our presentation “Using the ISSN Portal to check the Status of a library’s Journal Collections regarding Digital Preservation” is available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/8282860). We are making a significant contribution to the development of ISBD Review Group by chairing the dedicated working group. We thank all our colleagues and our customers for their continued support!

The National Diet Library, Japan, (the NDL) plans to integrate two of its current web services: the National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) and the NDL Search. These two will be launched as a new NDL Search web service in January 2024.

As of today, ISSN assigned for online resources published in Japan, which have been registered and maintained by the Japanese National Centre for ISSN, are available in the bibliographic records contained in NDL Search and NDL Online. WARP (Web Archiving Project) and National Diet Library Digital Collections (Online publications) provide online journals collected by the National Diet Library based on the National Diet Library Law or permission from the publishers.