Participants are welcome to meet ISSN IC’s sales representative, Ms Joy Raynaud, at the “Business Club” Hall 10

Topic: Amplifying scholarship: more choices, more voices. Tools and strategies, relationships between library publishing and scholarly communication will be discussed.

Embracing New Horizons is the general topic, with focuses on electronic resources, scholarly communications, continuing resource cataloging, and serials information chain.

The preleminary program is online for this IFLA pre-conference. This event is sponsored by the IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development, and co-sponsored by Serials and Other Continuing Resources.

This inaugural conference jointly convened by ARL, AAUP and CNI will bring together university library and press directors to explore how they may better work together towards understanding best practices for on-campus collaborations in scholarly communications.

Some updates on the further rollout of ONIX-PC, initiatives to better support open access products, and ideas on how best to extend support to members involved with libraries and library services.

ISSN IC will exhibit at Abu Dhabi Book Fair to be held from the 27th April to 3rd May 2016.

The conference will cover areas like newspaper and digital news media archiving, preservation and access, e-legal deposit, agreements between libraries and publishers, webharvesting.

As part of the 2016 Annual Members’ Meeting, the ICSTI ITOC and TACC committees have organized two workshops about Text and Data Mining. See ICSTI-programme-Feb2016.

Topic: Let´s make IT usable! Formats, systems and users: the use of IT to mediate the independent development of cataloguing rules, exchange formats, and cataloguing systems used in libraries.

Deadline for abstracts submission: by 29 February 2016.