International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

2016/01/18

Russian ISSN National centre

The ISSN National Centre of the Russian Federation has opened. This centre is located in the Russian Book Chamber in Moscow, managed by  the Russian news agency,  ITAR-TASS.

Welcome to the ISSN network !

More information and contacts via this link: http://www.bookchamber.ru/issn.html

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