The 43rd meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres will be held from 18 to 21 September 2018 at the kind invitation of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, United States of America.

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) organises its annual conference, a two day event which includes ICSTI Member-to-Member presentations, two workshops, and the introduction of a regular session on innovations.

Monday 10 September is reserved to ICSTI members or by invitation. As an ICSTI member, the ISSN International Centre is invited to contribute to the Member-to-Member presentations. Nathalie Cornic (Data, Network & Standards Department) will present the new features of the ISSN Portal.

On Tuesday 11 September : the ITOC and TACC workshops —titled respectively The Scientific Library of the Future, and Discovering and Connecting Related Research Objects in the Modern Science Landscape—  are open community sessions. The draft programme is online.

The ISSN International Centre will be represented at the 10th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), which is organised by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). The full programme is now available.

Registrations and Accommodation

Since 2015, the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia has been providing a research data repository that takes care of long-term preservation and archiving of good practices, so that researchers can share, maintain control and get recognition for their data. IBICT Dataverse is a large open data repository of all disciplines, created by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. The Coordination team of IBICT Rede Cariniana produced a guide for users of the Dataverse data repository. This guide describes the structure of the data repository, the permissions and functions of the people involved in the management of the system.

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The Annual Conference about Bibliographic Transition Beyond Standardization will take place at the National Library of France on Friday 29 June 2018.

The French Bibliographic Transition program under the aegis of ABES and BnF aims to adapt library catalogues to the semantic web. Since 2015, the professionals involved have worked to publish and implement new cataloguing rules based on RDA-FR, the French adaptation of RDA. They also train and advise libraries and software publishers on the evolution of applications, and support the French library community through awareness-raising.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre and President of the ISO Technical Committee 46, will deliver the opening address together with Stéphanie Roussel, President of the mirror French Committee 46. Details and registration on http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2018/a.jp_180629_afnor.html

The Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Interest Group Forum (ALCTS) has invited the ISSN International Centre and the U.S. ISSN Centre to present the new ISSN Portal to a mixed audience of professionals on Monday, June 25^th, 2018 (9-10 a.m., Morial Convention Centre, room 281/282).

NISO manages the secretariat of TC46 / SC9 Identification and description and has invited the Director of the ISSN International Centre to give a presentation about the activities of the working group responsible for the revision of ISO 3297 – ISSN on Saturday, June 23^rd, 2018 (1 -2.30 p.m. ; Morial Convention Centre, room 209).

The 2017 Activity Report of the ISSN International  Centre is available online. The highlights of year 2017 were, on the one hand, the revamped ISSN Portal and the new customer Extranet, and on the other hand, the revision of ISO 3297 standard, whose process shall last about three years before the sixth version of the standard is published.

The ISSN 2018 International Conference “An International Perspective on Open Access in Scholarly Communication: Achievements and Challenges” organised by the ISSN International Centre, was held in Paris on April 26th, 2018.

The program, videos and slides are available on CC.Webcast and on YouTube.

CAICYT-CONICET, hosting the Argentinian ISSN centre, is organising an on-site workshop to be held on 28-29 June 2018. Aimed at publishers, librarians and members of editorial committees of electronic scientific journals, this workshop will provide knowledge on the new editorial quality standards of the Latindex System for electronic publications as well as on the standards in force in this worldwide context and the main trends in scientific publishing. The program is online.