The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) will gather for its General Assembly & Workshops meeting to take place on 26th October 2017 at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, USA. The full program is online, as well as the preliminary program for both workshops ITOC (Information Trends and Opportunities Committee) and TACC (Technical Activities Coordinating Committee), and the registration is open.

On this occasion, Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress, standing in for Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre in Paris, will present an overview of the ISSN Network’s strategy to provide enhanced access to ISSN data. The strategy includes enhancing the ISSN International Centre’s operations, infrastructure, data, products and services, communications, and partnerships.

Library and Archives Canada hosted the annual meetings of the ISBN and ISMN International Agencies from September 11 to 13, 2017. Gaëlle Béquet gave an overview of the features of the extranet and the new portal which are being developed at the ISSN International Center.

The 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 19 to 21 September 2017. Nathalie Cornic, Deputy Head of the Data, Network and Standards Department, will attend the conference. Of particular interest are the Market for APCs, Open infrastructure in scholarly communications, Research evaluation and assessment which are on the agenda.

The ISSN International Centre is currently updating its services which will include a new interface to request ISSN assignment and a new web portal to access ISSN data more easily. A presentation will be given on Wednesday 23 August at 1.00 p.m. at IFLA Expo Pavilion / Lab on stand A120.

The ISSN IC will participate in the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) to be held in Lisbon on the 20th and 21st September, 2017.  Community and collaboration is at the heart of open access publishing, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is excited to gather all stakeholders working in open access around the world, noticeably publishers and librarians. Panel topics this year are: The market for APCs; Open infrastructure in scholarly communications; Research evaluation and assessment; Open peer review in both journal publishing and in open access books and monographs publishing.

The preliminary program is available. Registration is still open.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN IC, will chair the session about Epistemological and theoretical foundations of information of the 11^th Biennial Conference of the French ISKO Chapter (International Society for Knowledge Organization) which will be held on 11 and 12 July 2017 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The overarching theme of the conference is Epistemological and theoretical foundations of Information – Documentation science: a tribute to francophone pioneers.

The programme is online.

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the Annual Conference of the American Library Association which takes place in Chicago, IL, 22-27 June 2017. On Saturday 24 June, there will be a presentation of the latest news regarding the revision of ISO 3297 – ISSN at NISO Annual Meeting and Standards Update. On Sunday 25 June, Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of the US ISSN Centre, will speak at the session The Once and Future ISSN organized by the Continuing Resources Cataloging and Standards Forum (ALCTS CRS).

The Annual Conference about standardization in the information and documentation sector will take place at the National Library of France on Friday 23 June 2017. Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre and President of the ISO Technical Committee 46, will deliver the opening address together with Pierre Fuzeau, President of the mirror French Committee 46.

Programme and registration on http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2017/a.jp_170623_afnor.html .

Springer Nature and the ISSN International Centre have been initiating a centralized process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to serial publications of Springer Nature. The new process standardizes and automates the way unique identifiers are requested, before their publication, for periodicals and book series published under the various imprints of Springer Nature. Springer Nature thus has only one point of contact for all new ISSN assignments. Springer Nature will get ISSNs more quickly, and the ISSN International Centre will immediately share the new data with ISSN National Centres via the ISSN Register.

Set online in 2002, Latindex Catalogo was created as a referral service specializing in editorial quality criteria applied to the evaluation of Spanish journals in Science and Technology. Those journals that are compliant with a minimum of the criteria established by Latindex are included in the catalog. Editorial features like content, editorial guidelines, and online presentation are checked. Since May 2017, online journals must have their own e-ISSN, additionally to their previously assigned print ISSN. This mandatory amendment was added to the new list of 38 editorial quality criteria decided by a group of 4 scholars members of the Latindex network, and approved during the last Latindex technical meeting held in September 2016.