The National Library of Colombia – National Center of ISSN held a Meeting on Serial Publications in August 2019.

Attendees learned about topics related to the revision of the Colombian Technical Standard 1074 on information and documentation, with reference to the international standard serial number (ISSN); the role played by open access scholarly journals, and the behavior of serial publications in the digital environment were also discussed. In addition, the importance and advances of the digital legal deposit in the National Library of Colombia were presented, as a mechanism that allows preserving digital documents for future generations. As a complement to this professional development day, there was a workshop on the process of preservation of serial heritage works, both born-digital and analog.

ISSN IC will participate in the 16^th International Conference about Digital Preservation (iPRES) by giving a lightning talk about the Keepers’ Registry (thekeepers.org) that will soon be added to the portfolio of services provided by the ISSN Portal (portal.issn.org). Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Peter Burnhill, Advisor to the ISSN IC Director, will meet with supporting archiving agencies attending iPRES on 19 September  2019.

Conference programme is available.

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 influence the development of ROAD, the ISSN Directory of Open Access Resources.

The programme is online.

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 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.

ISSN International Centre and EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, have agreed to collaborate to postpone the retirement of Keepers Registry. Keepers Registry has been a Jisc funded service for the UK Higher Education sector from 2016 to 2019, but this funding will cease in July 2019. Jisc are thanked for their funding of the service over many years.

The ISSN International Centre and its Governing Board value the Keepers Registry as part of the global identification infrastructure for serials and wish to continue to make its functionality and content available for the UK and international communities of libraries, publishers and scholars.

To maintain this valuable service ISSN International Centre aims to provide a new service from December 2019. To facilitate this development, funding for EDINA to run the current service until the end of November 2019 is to be provided by the ISSN International Centre and the Keepers Agencies.

The ISSN International Centre’s sales team will be at IFLA exhibition booth A 112 from 25-28 August 2019. The exhibition takes place at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre.

The sales team will  be available to make a demo of the ISSN Portal, which contains more than 2,5 million ISSN records. The Portal offers users access to free ISSN essential identification metadata, which can also be reused in several linked open data formats. To subscribers, it offers a completely new range of data and services through ISSN records enriched with information from external sources that cooperate with the ISSN International Centre.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Margaret Mering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA, will chair IFLA session 208 regarding Serial, Continuing Resource and Scholarly Communication Related Standards – Serials and Other Continuing Resources. Several topics will be addressed during this 2 hour session, among which the revision of the ISSN standard, application of the LRM model to continuing resources and  interoperability of metadata schemes.

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.

The OASPA annual conference is a major scholarly publishing conference that brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing and share common goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. This year, the opening panel of the conference will be chaired by Robert Kiley (Head of Open Research, Wellcome Trust), who will mediate a discussion between representatives of international funders with an extended Q&A.

The programme is online.

ISSN International Centre and EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, have agreed to collaborate to postpone the retirement of Keepers Registry.  Keepers Registry has been a Jisc funded service for the UK Higher Education sector from 2016 to 2019, but this funding will cease in July 2019.  Jisc are thanked for their funding of the service over many years.

The ISSN International Centre and its Governing Board value the Keepers Registry as part of the global identification infrastructure for serials and wish to continue to make its functionality and content available for the UK and international communities of libraries, publishers and scholars. To maintain this valuable service, ISSN International Centre aims to provide a new service from December 2019.  To facilitate this development, funding for EDINA to run the current service until the end of November 2019 is to be provided by the ISSN International Centre and the Keepers Agencies.