The ISSN International Centre and the Spanish ISSN National Centre have recently completed a common project of semi-automated retrospective assignment of ISSN to bibliographic records from the Spanish Serials Union Catalogue (Catálogo Colectivo de Publicaciones Periódicas), which is managed at the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España). As a result, more than 10,737 ISSN records were added to the ISSN Register.

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. After signing the working agreement on December 3rd with the ISSN International Centre, the ISSN centre of the Federation of Russia is now operational and is hosted by the Russian Book Chamber in Moscow.

On 20th January, 2016, ROAD, the Directory of Scholarly Open Access Resources, was presented at UCL Centre for Publishing / Department of Information Studies / University College London, in the framework of a seminar around Discovery and Discoverability.

Delegates heard about enhancing discovery systems, how new tools are being deployed and used and how to make their content more findable. ROAD presentation made part of the case studies highlighted.

ROAD presentation is sharable on ISSN IC Slideshare.

On September 8th 2015, EDINA and the ISSN International Centre organised a workshop designed to explore the challenges of increasing preservation coverage of e-journals and related digital resources. A workshop report which documents the event is now available.

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.

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.

This conference about ISSN facing the digital transition has been organised by the French ISSN national centre, together with ISSN IC and ABES, the French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education on Nov.4th, 2015.
The presentations and videos are now online.

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.

This conference about ISSN facing the digital transition has been organised by the French ISSN national centre, together with ISSN IC and ABES, the French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education. ISSN 40th anniversary is the opportunity to remind and illustrate the role of ISSN for reliable identification, access and preservation.

The most interesting tweets are compiled and ISSN presentations will be posted on Slideshare.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will participate to a panel session entitled “What criteria can identify ethical publishing and publications?” during the STM Week 2015 (1st-3rd December, London).