The 43^rd 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.

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