On November 15, 1978, an agreement was signed between the National Library of Spain and the ISSN International Centre to create the Spanish ISSN Centre. As of November 1st, 2018, the number of Spanish records in the ISSN database exceeds 60,000, of which 8,893 describe electronic serial publications. An average of 1,500 ISSN are assigned each year by the Spanish centre.
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Juha Hakala, Senior advisor at The National Library of Finland, chair of ISO/TC 46/SC 4 on Technical interoperability and author of various IETF RFCs on the use of URN for the resolution of bibliographic identifiers (NBNs, ISBNs, ISSNs, …) is hosted by the ISSN IC for a two-day working session (November 20-21, 2018) on the practical implementation of URN resolution for ISSNs.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC) have just signed two agreements stating that the ISSN IC is the Registration Authority responsible for the implementation of ISO 4 Information and documentation — Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications and ISO 3297 Information and documentation — International standard serial number (ISSN).
The ISSN International Centre will participate in the 2018 Charleston Library Conference (U.S.A.) to promote its new services to librarians and publishers. The Director of the ISSN International Centre will give two presentations (Nov. 7th and 8th) focusing on the new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (https://journaltransfer.issn.org) and the implementation of standards.
The ISSN International Centre will participate in the 2018 SemWebPro Conference. The Head of the Data, Network and Standards Dpt will make a presentation highlighting the ISSN Portal, its data model and its services. This presentation will be the opportunity to address use cases to improve the description of continuing resources in the web of data.
The programme is online.
In October 2018, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers, published its fifth edition of the report entitled The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing.
The 2018 STM Report mentions the ISSN as the key standard for the identification and description of continuing resources. The ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org) and the new Enhanced Transfer Alerting Service (ETAS) hosted by the ISSN International Centre (https://journaltransfer.issn.org) are also featured in the 2018 STM Report.
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.
ISSN International Centre Sales team will be happy to meet you at FBF International Library Centre, ILC– hall 4.2, stand N 75 (16-17 October 2019).
Nathalie Cornic, Head of Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will participate in the ICEDIS meeting organized by EDItEUR ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
By early October 2018, the National Library of Nigeria will launch a new Online ISSN platform to speed up and follow ISSN publishers’ requests for ISSN assignments to Nigerian serial publications.
