The national standards organizations members of ISO TC 46 have just voted and endorsed the revised version of ISO 3297, which will be released in 2020.

The Director of the ISSN International Centre will give a presentation about Keepers Registry, the new service provided by the ISSN portal (portal.issn.org), at CNI Fall 2019 Membership Meeting. The ISSN International Centre will offer this service that supplies information about long-term preservation of digitized and born-digital continuing resources as from December 3rd, 2019 when the University of Edinburgh, the current provider, relinquishes responsibility.

Dear ISSN users,

The “Keepers Registry”, a JISC-funded service for the UK Higher Education sector from 2016 to 2019 and maintained by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh (https://thekeepers.org),  will be discontinued as from the end of this week.

The ISSN International Centre, in cooperation with the various contributing Keepers agencies, decided to maintain this service by integrating the Keepers Data into the ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org).

This new service will require a technical operation on December 3rd and the ISSN Portal will be unavailable for 4 hours from 9am to 1pm CET due to this data import.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

The 44th meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres will be held in New Delhi, India,  at the kind invitation of the National Institute for Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR).

Early October, ISO Central Secretariat launched a FDIS ballot to validate the sixth version of ISO 3297 – ISSN.  All ISO Member bodies can vote until the end of November 2019. The sixth version of the ISSN standard should be published by ISO in 2020.

The ISSN International Centre is organizing an ISSN Regional Meeting in partnership with IZUM, the Slovenian Institute of Information Science (https://www.izum.si/en/) in Maribor, Slovenia. Representatives from Balkan and Central European ISSN National Centres will attend and share information about metadata issues, the ISSN Portal and the new metadata production tool.

The ISSN IC Sales team  will be happy to welcome you at the Frankfurt Book Fair,  International Library Centre – Hall 4.2, stand N 75

ISSN IC Director and Chair of ISO TC46 Information and Documentation, Gaëlle Béquet will open the conference organized by AFNOR and Bibliothèque nationale de France about standards that improve the quality of services to users. This event will take place at BnF, François Mitterrand Building, on Oct. 11^th, 2019 (9.00 – 17.00). Registration and program available at https://www.afnor.org/evenement/afnor-bnf-qualite-service-usagers-normes-volontaires/

The 11th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 24-26 September 2019. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will attend the conference. This is the opportunity for ISSN International Centre to hear about new trends in Open Access, all of which might interest the development of ROAD, the ISSN Directory of Open Access Resources.