A round table discussion about digital journals and digital scholarship is organized on September 5^th, 2018  by LATINDEX and the Ibero-American Institute (Berlin) at 6 p.m.

Entitled “The digital journal from a cross-regional perspective”, the following topics will be addressed:

– new formats for scientific publications,

– quality criteria for scientific publications,

– the interrelationships between publications and academic careers,

– the comparison between existing circumstances in Europe and Latin America.

Ana María Cetto, President of Latindex, and Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will contribute to the debate.

The presentation about the new ISSN Portal for Libraries and Publishers at the 2018 annual conference of the American Library Association is available at

https://www.slideshare.net/ISSNIC40/issnala-2018-the-new-issn-portal-for-libraries-and-publishers

We inform you that a new version of the ISSN Portal will be released today, around 2 pm (CET).

This version will provide the following improvements:

–              Integration of ROAD into the ISSN Portal. The URL of ROAD will not change (https://road.issn.org).

–              Addition of new indexes and facets: notably “Covered by” or “OA resource type”

–              Provision of a version designed for mobile devices (smartphones).

–              Addition of a new download format: CSV

In order to set up the new version, the service will be interrupted from noon to 2 pm (CET).

We apologize for any inconvenience.