This year, the NISO+ Conference will focus on persistent identifiers (PIDs)! Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will moderate one session about the fragmentation of the PID landscape and the recommendations made by Knowledge Exchange in their latest report to implement PIDs. She will speak at the session dealing with the interoperability and the diversity of PIDs . Last but not least, she will moderate the session about PIDs for humanities researchers.  Registration and complete schedule : https://niso.plus/ .

The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force under IFLA ISBD Review Group has been working since 2019 to come up with an alignment of the ISBD with LRM at the Manifestation level (ISBDM). Mikael Wetterström, from the Metadata and Technical coordination of the ISSN Network department at the ISSN International Centre, has contributed to this project since its inception. Join the webinar scheduled on January 26, 2023 to get some insights on the first results achieved by this task force. The program and registration info can be found here: https://cutt.ly/F2KLOCe

The Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) was created in 1986 by the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). ENSTINET has been hosting ISSN Egypt since 1990. ENSTINET manages a technological platform supporting research in Egypt. It operates the National Research and Education Network. It collaborates with similar organisations in Europe (GEANT) and the USA (Internet2). ENSTINET also hosts the Egyptian Knowledge Bank Portal the National Scientific and Technical Repository and a publishing platform among other services. Through agreements with 31 publishers as of 2022, 120 databases are made available to Egyptian researchers and students. ENSTINET and ISSN Egypt have been instrumental in the creation of the Arabic Citation Index with Clarivate (https://clarivate.com/arabic-citation-index/) to make research in Arab States more visible.