The ISSN International Centre will participate in the Annual Conference of the American Library Association which takes place in New Orleans, LA, from 21 to 26 June 2018. Presentations of the new ISSN Portal will be given at the RDA pre-conference on June 22 and at the the Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations session on June 25.

Live demos will also be shown on booth 2920.

The annual plenary meeting of ISO Technical Committee 46 Information & Documentation will be held at the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon (Portugal) from 14 to 18 May 2018, at the kind invitation of Instituto Português da Qualidade (IPQ). The working group about the revision of ISO 3297 — ISSN will hold two meetings in Lisbon. The Director of the ISSN International Centre will also have a meeting with ISSN Portugal colleagues.

The ISSN 2018 International Conference “An International Perspective on Open Access in Scholarly Communication: Achievements and Challenges” organised by the ISSN International Centre, was held in Paris on April 26th, 2018.

The program, videos and slides are available online.

The French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) organises every year its annual meeting with its network of academic libraries.  ABES also holds annually the SUDOC PS Meeting with university librarians specialized in serial identification and cataloguing.

The ISSN International Centre has been invited to participate in both events. The Head of Data, Network and Standards Department at the ISSN International Centre shall give a demo of the ISSN portal (programme ) and participate in the SUDOC PS Meeting (May 25th, 2018).

Taking place in Lagos, Nigeria on 9 May 2018, this IPA (International Publishers Association) Regional Seminar covered a broad range of issues, from the socio-economic contribution of publishing in Africa, to Freedom to Publish, and the role of technology in overcoming illiteracy.

You can download the program and read the interview with Gbadega Adedapo, member of the IPA’s Executive Committee, President of the Nigerian Publishers Association and CEO of Ramsed Publications Ltd.

A set of guidelines and best practices is proposed to heritage institutions in order to facilitate the process of making heritage collections reusable. These guidelines are based on the FAIR Principles for scholarly output (FAIR data principles 2014), completed with additional initiatives for making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The resulting FAIR Principles for Heritage Library, Archive and Museum Collections focus on three levels: objects, metadata and metadata records. Clarifications and examples of these proposed principles are presented, as well as recommendations for the assessment of current situations and implementations of the principles.

At the 2015 Open Science Conference organised by Couperin, the French academic network managing deals with publishers, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs and Innovation presented the law for a Digital Republic. Three years after this important event, the 7th COUPERIN Open Science Conference was held in Paris in January 2018. The speakers focused on the new sustainable ways for Open Access publishing giving papers about OA2020, the German DEAL project, public-funded publishing, support for bibliodiversity, the evolution of the assessment of scholarly output, etc.

The videos and presentations are online.

The OCLC FY18 Global Council meeting was held in Dublin, Ohio, USA. Global Council is comprised of 48 member-elected delegates, each representing one of three regions (the Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and the Asia Pacific Region). In addition to electing new members to the Board, the Global Council  also wrapped up a year of council activity around the theme for the year: The Smarter Library. Selected outputs from all three meetings are now available online.

One of the tasks the Digital Preservation Task Force is charged with is raising awareness about digital preservation initiatives. To that end, the Task Force has created three reference guides: Digital Preservation 101, Talking Points and Questions to Ask Publishers about Digital Preservation, and the Guide to the Keepers Registry. The latter provides insight into how you may begin evaluating the preservation status of the digital scholarship in your collection. The Guides are intended to be a jumping off point for further research and discovery about digital preservation.

Six distinguished leaders in research and scholarship from across Canada and the United States will examine the progress of the initiative Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration, led by the Vice Provost of the University of Calgary. This investigation, supported by a $1-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has provided funding for Calgary researchers in social and environmental sciences and the humanities during the past academic year. The reviewers’ comments will focus on the envisioned impact of the research at the University of Calgary on their own institutions.

The European Commission has released a new set of recommendations to the Member States that offer guidance and propose the best way to implement and support open science practices. The new recommendations include sections on incentives and require action plans from Member States with concrete and measurable objectives.

The provision of community feedback on the exploration of science has evolved with the publication process. The February 2017 approval of open standards for web annotation provides the infrastructure for an interoperable collaborative annotation layer that will make conversations over scientific content ubiquitous and standard. Heather Staines and Maryann E. Martone explain how this community feedback was preserved in the form of annotations that support the FAIR data principles.

This UKSG event was live webcast, and recorded for online viewing. All plenaries and lightning talks were streamed, and the presentations and photos are available.

Wellcome is currently conducting a review of its open access policy. As part of this, they are running a short open consultation to solicit stakeholder views on the policy and its future. Submissions from individuals and organisations are welcome.

The consultation questions can be viewed and responses submitted via this online form. The deadline for responses to the consultation is 21 May 2018.

Richard Poynder interviewed two OA advocates, one from the global North and one from the global South, along with their responses to each other’s Q&A. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason is a University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer at UC Berkeley. Mahmoud Khalifa is a librarian at the Library of Congress Cairo Office and DOAJ Ambassador for the Middle East and Persian Gulf.

The Indian University Grants Commission (UGC) has removed 4,305 questionable or poor-quality journals from its approved list of journals. The UGC was forced to act following complaints by researchers and the media about inclusion of predatory and questionable journals in its white list. Consequently, the Standing Committee on Notification of Journals re-evaluated every journal title recommended by universities as well as those indexed by Indian Citation Index. Eventually, the Committee found 4,305 journals to be either low quality or questionable. The criteria for selection as a UGC approved journal are explained. Among these criteria, the ISSN plays a central role.

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will gather in Hamburg (May 14-17, 2018).

The program is online.

Starting on May 30^th with a reception at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the conference will take place on May 31^st with a mix of keynote speech, panel discussions and practical workshops addressing the issues from a wide variety of views.

The program is online.

The International Association of University Libraries will hold its annual conference in Oslo (June 18-21, 2018).

The program is online, registrations will close on 1st June, 2018.

The Association of European University Presses will hold  a workshop about standards that matter for university presses and institutional publishers in Riga, Latvia (June 5-6, 2018).

The preliminary program is online.

The program is online.

Registrations are open.