DOAJ and the ISSN International Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2015.
The purpose of this agreement is to promote both parties and exchange metadata about quality, open access journals. The benefit of this working agreement is to give an insight about trusted peer-reviewed open access journals. Being indexed in the DOAJ means that the journals considered adhere to high levels of quality regarding best practices
Conference at BnF (November 4th): « L’ISSN face à la transition numérique »
The videos of the ISSN conference hold in the BnF on November 4th are now available on the following link:
http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2015/a.jp_151104_issn.html
The ISSN International centre and ITAR-TASS, the Russian news agency which manages the Russian Book Chamber in Moscow, signed a working agreement on December 3rd, 2015 to create the ISSN Centre of the Federation of Russia.
The Federation of Russia has recently acceded to the Statutes of the International Centre for the registration of serial publications which was established in Paris as a result of an agreement between UNESCO and the Government of the French Republic.
The new Russian ISSN centre should start operating in January 2016.
To see the pictures of this event, please visit our Facebook page: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ISSNInternationalCentre
Latindex and the ISSN International Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 2015. The purpose of this three-year agreement is to promote both parties and exchange metadata about serials. Latindex centres will benefit from specific accesses to the ISSN database while ISSN International Centre will use Latindex records to enhance ROAD. Another objective is to assign identifiers to serial resources indexed by Latindex but not covered by the ISSN Register.
ISSN International Centre will visit the ISSN centre of Germany from 8 to 10 December, 2015.
The ISSN International Centre and its network take part in Think.Check.Submit, a new campaign led by representatives from ALPSP, DOAJ, INASP, LIBER, OASPA, STM and individual publishers. This campaign will help researchers understand their options, and key criteria they should check before submitting. For more information please have a look at www.thinkchecksubmit.org .
Press release: Think Check Submit_GB
The ISSN International Centre will welcome the meeting of the ISO working group for the revision of the WARC standard (16-17 November). The WARC file format, ISO 28500:2009, is the reference format to store and preserve web archives. See http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/
A new publication on ISSN’s Slideshare account has been posted: a presentation (in Spanish) of the ISSN network and its objectives held at the conference organized by the National Library of Colombia on Aug. 10th, 2015.
At 2015 Charleston Library Conference Gaëlle Béquet and Laurie Kaplan, Content Business Analyst Lead at ProQuest, will make a presentation about their joint project to enhance ISSN assignment to serial resources identified in Ulrich’s database.
Find more about the conference program on http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com .
