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  • 2010/08/31 – Meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres in Boston Spa (UK)

    We are pleased to announce that the next meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres will be held in Boston Spa (UK), at the kind invitation of the British Library, from October 6th until October 8th, 2010.

    You will find all the necessary information for your registration and your travel and accommodation on the Community part of the site (restricted access). 

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  • 2010/07/19 – ISSN AWARD 2010 ...

    We have the pleasure to announce that Croatia has been granted the ISSN Award for 2010. Congratulations !

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  • 2010/06/18 – KBART Report: Important role of the ISSN!

    UKSG and NISO have announced that the American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organizations to publicly endorse the Phase I recommendations of the KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Working Group.

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  • 2010/05/07 – WARNING: A misuse of the name of CIEPS / ISSN!

    A misuse of the name of CIEPS / ISSN International Centre seems to be currently taking place in an illicit context on the Internet.

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  • 2009/12/22 – 20,000 new ISSN for the French local press

    Acting both as a national bibliography and as national union catalog, the "Bibliography of political and general information French press" (called "BIPFPIG" under its French acronym) lists, department by department, all the general interest newspapers, which started their publication before the press decrees adopted just after the "liberation" at the end of the Second World War (August 26 and September 30, 1944); it provides an inventory of all collections that are kept in France (BNF, National Archives, local libraries, regional archives, city archives, university libraries, local institutions and all other institutions open to the public).


     

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