The 41st Meeting of ISSN Centres’ Directors will take place next week in Brasilia at the invitation of the Instituto Brasileiro de Informaçào em Ciência e Tecnologia, which hosts the ISSN Centre for Brazil.

Regina Reynolds, Director of the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress, will present two papers about the project the ISSN International Centre and ProQuest are currently engaged,  and about predatory publishing practices. Find more information at  https://2016charlestonconference.sched.org/speaker/rrey .

The standard ISO 3297:2007 – Information and documentation – International standard serial number will be revised

The results of ISO ballot on the systematic review of ISO 3297 were published at the end of September 2016. Seventeen ISO/TC46 P-Members voted in favor of the revision. Ten ISO P-members also appointed experts to participate in the working group. The latter should be set up shortly by the secretariat of Subcommittee 9 which focuses on Identification and description under the umbrella of the Technical Committee 46 dedicated to Information and Documentation.