This report is based on a Europe-wide survey run by LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group. The survey focused on digital collections and the activities libraries undertake around them. The themes covered were based on input from participants at the Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural Heritage workshop at LIBER’s 2018 Annual Conference (Lille, France; 4-6 July).  The final survey consisted of 83 questions and was open for responses between 1 February and 15 March 2019.

If you could not attend LIBER 2019 annual conference at Trinity College Dublin, the main talks were recorded on Trinity Library YouTube channel. The presentations are also available on Zenodo. Two papers are particularly interesting. University Journals: Consolidating Institutional Repositories in a Free Open Access Publication Platform, a new publication platform that complies with Plan S principles and enables publication and dissemination of all research outcomes. The Open Library of Humanities: a Sustainable Scholar-led Model for OA without Publication Fees, demonstrate how scholar-led initiatives such as the OLH have proven for years that there are alternatives to the standard APC model (pay-to-publish) and that it is possible to sustain them in the long-term.

To make sure you get the best out of the Congress programme, some of the key sessions are featured in July newsletter, giving the tips for the iPlanner – your diary for WLIC 2019, and taking you for a stroll through Athens’ charming neighbourhoods and alleys and discover the city’s hidden gems.

Each year, IFLA Headquarters compiles its Annual Report. It gives IFLA Members and other interested parties full and transparent details on IFLA activities, achievements and financial performance.

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.

IFLA Serials & Other Continuing Resources Section and IFLA National Libraries Section are organising an exploration of grey literature: its scope in the digital age; how repositories are managing it; and how it is made discoverable and accessible to users.

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.