The 49th ISSN Centre Directors’ Meeting is being held from October 21-24, 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia, at the kind invitation of the National Library of Tunisia.

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 !

The full ISSN International Centre 2023 Activity Report is now available in English and French. The summarized report is available in 6 languages.

You can download the last activity reports here: https://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/our-mission/our-strategy/.

The Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) is organizing two events related to scientific publications. Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, has been invited by the Director of IBICT to present a paper on persistent identifiers and on the article she published in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Management.

The program for these conferences is available.

Prof. Ana María Cetto, President of Latindex, has invited Gaëlle Béquet to participate in the session on persistent identifiers and digital archiving during the annual meeting of Latindex members, which will be held in Madrid this year. The other speakers in this session will be John Kunze from the California Digital Library and Silvia Pérez from the Argentine Centre for Scientific and Technical Information.

Gaëlle Béquet will give a presentation on the future development of the Keepers Registry service on Wednesday, September 18, during the IPres conference. This event provides a unique opportunity to meet with representatives of archiving agencies that may participate in this service, especially in priority areas such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The conference program is available.

The Society of Librarians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina fully supports the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NUB BiH). This library is crucial for preserving and archiving the country’s cultural and scientific heritage. It also produces the national bibliography and manages national agencies for ISSN, ISBN (International Standard Book Number), ISMN (International Standard Music Number).

Closing the National Library would disrupt publishing and academic progress, and hamper library cataloging. The Society urges leaders to prevent the library’s demise, which would fulfill the destructive goals of the 1992 war and devastate the nation’s cultural foundation.

La Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia está organizando una serie de eventos profesionales para los editores colombianos, que incluyen presentaciones sobre el ISSN, el ISBN, las mejores prácticas en bibliometría y la producción de metadatos de calidad. El vídeo de la conferencia (en español) está disponible aquí.

Gaëlle Béquet, Directora del Centro Internacional del ISSN, ha sido invitada a presentar las actividades del Centro y de la red ISSN en el evento organizado por la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia para los editores colombianos. El programa del taller incluye también una presentación del identificador ISBN, buenas prácticas en bibliometría y producción de metadatos de calidad. Más información está disponible aquí.

The ISSN IC will exhibit at LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) annual conference.

Join us on our booth for a presentation of our services.

Look at the programme of the conference.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Carlos Authier, Director of ISSN Argentina, gave a joint presentation at the PIDFest conference organized in Prague by the National Library of Technology, which hosts ISSN Czech Republic. Their presentation was about the interoperability of ARK, ISNI, ISSN and URN identifiers.