Innocent Azilan (Institut méditerranéen des sciences de l’information et de la communication, France), Hanae Hroul (Ecole des Sciences de l’Information, Morocco), Nadia Barnoussi (Ecole des Sciences de l’Information, Morocco) and Pascal Aventurier (IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France) will present their research on the internationalisation and visibility of African Open Access journals at the Open Science Conference in the South, to be held in South Africa from 9 to 11 December. This research has been made possible by the availability of data from the ISSN portal (https://portal.issn.org). The programme is available here: https://aosp.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OSS-Draft-Programme-_-October-2024-reformate-.docx.pdf
The ISSN International Centre takes part in the Charleston Library Conference 2024 (Charleston, USA, 12-15 November 2024)
Each year this conference brings together more than 2,000 information professionals and exhibitors. On 14 November 2024, Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will be taking part in a round table discussion on collaborative documentary policy as part of the Cooperative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) coordinated by NISO, USA. For more information: https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/welcome/2024-charleston-conference/
Research Information publishes an article on the development of the ISSN International Centre since 2014
Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, takes stock of the organisation’s development since 2014. In particular, she mentions the creation of the ISSN portal and the opening up of data, the expansion of the network notably with the accession of Austria, the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Federation, Peru and Ukraine, the implementation of a new data production tool accessible to all national centres and the collaboration with a wide range of partners such as DOAJ, Latindex, CLOCKSS, Portico, Rede Cariniana and Springer Nature, to name but a few. Read the full article:
https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/expanding-horizons