Russian publishers answered a survey early this year about their needs and expectations regarding ISSN services. Representatives from the ISSN International Centre and the ISSN Russian Centre will present the findings of their survey and the on-going projects to develop their services for the publishing industry and the library community.

The meeting will take place on September 8, 2016 from 11:30 to 13:00, Moscow International Book Fair (pavilion №75, conference room № 215).

http://mibf.info/english

EDINA and the ISSN International Centre are pleased to announce the publication of Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record. This statement outlines the actions now required to tackle the evolving challenges of preserving and ensuring the long-term accessibility of digital scholarship.

http://thekeepers.blogs.edina.ac.uk/keepers-extra/ensuringthefuture/

Working Together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record addresses publishers, research libraries and national libraries, and sets out a series of recommended activities that they can undertake to support archiving and preservation initiatives. It represents the consensus of the preservation specialists, archivists, librarians and technologists who participated in an invited workshop held as part of the Keepers Extra project in Paris on the 6th and 7th of June 2016.

The Keepers Extra project (2014-16) is a Jisc investment designed to support and enhance community activity around the Keepers Registry, a Jisc service at EDINA.  The Keepers Registry provides the freely available means to discover which e-journals are being archived by participating ‘Keeper’ archiving agencies, and thereby helps to highlight those e-journals for which no arrangement is on record.

The Keepers network, the community of practitioners who contribute to the registry are committed to acting as the stewards of digital content and will work to support and encourage the actions identified in this statement.

Together, we invite others to support this call to action.  If you or your organisation wishes to endorse this statement please write to edina@ed.ac.uk.

14-17 August 2016: The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at IFLA conference in Columbus -USA (booth n°E104).

On 15 August:

IFLA WLIC 2016: Two presentations by the ISSN International Centre scheduled

The Open Session “The Role of Stakeholders in the New Serials World” organized by IFLA’s Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) will include two presentations by the ISSN International Centre.

Please check the programme at http://www.professionalabstracts.com/iflawlic2016/iplanner/

On 16 August:

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (Columbus, Ohio, August 16^th, 2016)

Gaëlle Béquet, director of the ISSN International Centre, will give a presentation about its new strategy at the CDNL meeting.