The French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) organises every year its annual meeting with its network of academic libraries.  ABES also holds annually the SUDOC PS Meeting with university librarians specialized in serial identification and cataloguing.

The ISSN International Centre has been invited to participate in both events. The Head of Data, Network and Standards Department at the ISSN International Centre shall give a demo of the ISSN portal (programme ) and participate in the SUDOC PS Meeting (May 25th, 2018).

The ISSN International Centre will attend the 41^st UKSG Annual Conference in Glasgow,  April 9-11, 2018. Short demos of the new ISSN Portal and its Extranet are scheduled on Apr. 9^th at 1 p.m., on Apr. 10^th and 11^th at 10.30 a.m. (booth 33).

On January 4^th, 2018, the ISSN international Centre launched its new Portal and its new Extranet which are available at https://portal.issn.org.

The ISSN Portal has been enriched with new features such as improved search functions (faceted search, cartographic search), multiple display options, additional data, i.e. a unified subject classification based on UDC, and the possibility to download bibliographic information in MARC and linked data formats.

The Customer Extranet allows each subscribing entity to have its own access point with details about its subscription. Specific statistics are available to help with usage monitoring. The new Extranet therefore allows customers of the ISSN Portal greater autonomy in managing their accounts.