The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at Booth n°A106 during the 87th World Library Information Congress. The ISSN International Centre will give a presentation entitled Identifying OA journals: A Core Business of the ISSN International Centre at the Expo Pavilion on July 26th, 2022 (12:00 to 12:45 IST). The full program is available here: https://iflawlic2022.planner.documedias.systems/api/documents/pdf-program
La Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) rejoint le Réseau Mir@bel en tant que membre veilleur. Ce partenariat fait suite aux actions déjà mises en place avec le Centre ISSN France pour améliorer conjointement le signalement des périodiques, notamment avec l’attribution d’e-ISSN.
Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, conducted a webinar hosted by the Institut de recherche pour le développement, IRD.
The subject was: ISSN, a reliable and permanent identifier for journals and monographic series. What for? Gaëlle Béquet introduced the ISSN IC services and discussed their relevance to the scholarly community.
The ISSN International Centre participated in the conference held by ABES, the French academic libraries network, held on 21-22 June 2022. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Dpt., delivered a presentation about the participation of the ISSN Network in CIDEMIS, the Dematerialized Circuit of ISSN Requests for ISSN assignment and data modifications. She presented services based on ISSN as well as avenues for future cooperation with ABES. The agenda is available here : https://abes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/programme-journees-abes-2022.pdf
ISO standard 3297:2020 – ISSN has been slightly amended and a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) ballot is now taking place to approve the 7th version of the standard. This ballot will be closed by May 26, 2021. Thus, ISO TC46/SC9 members are kindly advised to quickly contact their ISO national member body to cast their vote.
ISSN Data and the associated suite of services have become an essential element in the identification of continuing resources worldwide: the ISSN Portal to freely and easily identify more than 2.5 million serials; ROAD to access Open Access scholarly resources curated by the ISSN Network; Keepers Registry to check which digital resources are archived by our 14 contributing agencies’; and Transfer Alerting Service to track journal transfer information. Since 1975, the ISSN has been the unique and persistent identifier for journals and other continuing publications. On a daily basis, it serves librarians, editors, publishers, content providers, database managers, scholars, students. Look at the quotations from some of our customers, and read how the latest version of ISO 3297 standard published in 2020 takes into account the requirements of the library and the publishing communities.
The Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) has marked this year’s World Book and Copyright Day with a resolve to leverage on technology to increase the country’s literacy rate. Within the last four years, the authority have introduced some thoughtful initiatives which have helped in connecting Ghanaians to relevant knowledge.
Among these initiatives, applying for International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and International Standard Music Numbers (ISMN) has been automated to give comfort to clients to apply for them electronically wherever they were in Ghana.
Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will chair the 2022 ISO TC46 Annual Meeting that will again take place remotely. About thirty meetings are scheduled online to discuss current standardization initiatives in the fields of information and documentation.
The UKSG 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place as a hybrid event, both online and in Telford, from 30 May to 1 June 2022.
ISSN International Centre will be represented by the Sales team and the head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network.
The programme is anounced and registration is open.
Mr Pawel Stroinski will succeed to Mr Mariusz Sielski at the head of ISSN Poland. Welcome to the ISSN Network, Pawel!
