Gaëlle Béquet will take part to Latindex General Assembly held early October in Madrid

Latindex is a regional consortium created in 1995 and which manages databases about scientific and professional journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The main catalogue provides a comprehensive coverage of serial resources both print and online with approximately 24,000 titles. A subset of this catalogue –about 8,300 titles- identifies quality journals sorted out according to editorial criteria defined by Latindex. Latindex also provides access to 6,752 digital journals categorized by themes, regions and countries.

Latindex has been a partner of the ISSN International Centre for many years and both will renew their cooperation agreement during the 21st meeting of Latindex that will take place in Madrid  (Sept.29th to Oct. 2nd 2015).

On October 2nd, IC Director, Mrs Béquet will meet with the staff of ISSN National centre of Spain in Madrid.

7^th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)

This conference held in Amsterdam, from September 15^th-17th, 2015, was organised by OASPA, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, in order to exchange information about standards, OA mandates, business models, metrics and innovative practices in scholarly communication.

This was the opportunity to meet publishers and other stakeholders of the OA community, to promote the use ROAD and to discuss its future directions.