The ISSN IC has launched its new website.

The address doesn’t change but all has been reviewed for a better « ISSN experience », we hope you will enjoy its new ergonomy and design.

https://www.issn.org/

 

The Registry provides the Library of Congress (LoC) with opportunity to share information on the titles and digital content that it is archiving for the long term.

Challenges and goals of the PIE-J project by Regina Romano Reynolds, director of the US ISSN Center.

Scholarly Kitchen chef and NISO executive director Todd Carpenter talks about the importance of technical standards in scholarly publishing today.

The journal Science has uncovered, via investigation, a thriving black market in science paper authoring—people are paying to have their names added to papers that have been written to describe research efforts.

ALLEA (All European Academies) has released a paper which invites European authorities to take measures facilitating an Open Access model under consideration of the specificities of the various scientific disciplines.

« Open Access » can be a very confusing term as several models coexist. Overview of the main ones.

The comeback of paying online content for the newspapers following the important decrease of advertising revenues.

This year’s Open Access Week, a global event that just finished its sixth year, was held Oct. 21–27, 2013. Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access (OA).

Society publishers face a number of challenges as a result of declining subscriptions, increased competition, demand for mobile access, increasing production prices, and open access mandates. This study is a review of scholarly journal price trends during the past year.

The latest in the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) series of Technology Watch Reports has been released on 30th October.

It discusses the critical issues of preservation, trust and continuing access for e-journals, particularly in light of the dynamic and interdependent resources they have become, as well as the ever-growing trend towards open-access.

 

The slides and the recording of the following UKSG webinars are now available online:

Managing Open Access in the Library

What is Open Access? An Introduction

Europeana is running four workshops to help define Europeana’s strategy for the period 2015-2020: one for Distribution & Engagement, one for Aggregation, one for Facilitation, and a finalizing Synthesis session.

In October 2013, Choice, the magazine of the Association of College and Research Libraries, offered a webinar titled ”The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World”. A recording and the slides are now available.

A recent study of humanities faculty at twelve research institutions, led by Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aimed to find out more about uses of digital collections among humanities scholars.

Survey results

Summary of the debates held during the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Conference (23rd to 25th of October 2013).

Among the subjects discussed:

- The current state of scholarly communication,
- The expansion of evaluation methodologies and metrics,
- Products and services in editing and publishing academic journals,
- The role played by public policies and programs in the support and evaluation of research communicated by journals.