2015/12/23

Clément Oury elected chair of the PRESSoo Review Group

PRESSoo, an extension of the FRBRoo model, is an ontology for describing serial publications and other continuing resources. It is maintained by a dedicated group of revision which depends on the IFLA cataloging section.

Clément Oury, Head of Data, Network and Standards department at the ISSN International Centre, has been elected chair of the Review Group by the cataloguing section Standing Committee.

Please find more information on https://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/our-partners-and-projects/pressoo/

2015/12/17

DOAJ and ISSN IC

DOAJ and the ISSN International Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2015.

The purpose of this agreement is to promote both parties and exchange metadata about quality, open access journals. The benefit of this working agreement is to give an insight about trusted peer-reviewed open access journals. Being indexed in the DOAJ means that the journals considered adhere to high levels of quality regarding best practices

2015/12/10

New ISSN Centre soon…

The ISSN International centre and ITAR-TASS, the Russian news agency which manages the Russian Book Chamber in Moscow, signed a working agreement on December 3^rd, 2015 to create the ISSN Centre of the Federation of Russia.

The Federation of Russia has recently acceded to the Statutes of the International Centre for the registration of serial publications which was established in Paris as a result of an agreement between UNESCO and the Government of the French Republic.

The new Russian ISSN centre should start operating in January 2016.

To see the pictures of this event, please visit our Facebook page: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ISSNInternationalCentre