International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

2018/09/01

LATINDEX and the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin) to organize a round table discussion about digital journals and digital scholarship (Sept. 5th, 2018)

A round table discussion about digital journals and digital scholarship is organized on September 5th, 2018  by LATINDEX and the Ibero-American Institute (Berlin) at 6 p.m.

Entitled “The digital journal from a cross-regional perspective”, the following topics will be addressed:

– new formats for scientific publications,

– quality criteria for scientific publications,

– the interrelationships between publications and academic careers,

– the comparison between existing circumstances in Europe and Latin America.

 

Ana María Cetto, President of Latindex, and Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will contribute to the debate.

2018/08/24

A model to link them all: IFLA LRM as a driver for harmonization of cataloguing standards related to serials and other continuing resources

Gordon Dunsire, Chair of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, and Clément Oury, Head of the Data, Network & Standards Department at the ISSN International Centre, will present their paper at IFLA WLIC 2018 during the session 074 Impact of recently approved IFLA standards – Committee on Standards (SI). This session will take place on 25 August 2018, in Ballroom 1, from 13:45 – 15:45.

The paper is available here: A model to link them all-IFLA LRM as a driver for harmonization of cataloguing standards-074-Dunsire-Oury-en

2018/08/22

ISSN Information and Training Session at the National Library of Malaysia (August 23-24, 2018)

With the support of the National Library of Malaysia, the ISSN International Centre is organizing an information and training session for 15 representatives of Asian ISSN National Centres in Kuala Lumpur prior to 2018 IFLA Conference. Colleagues from Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will come together with the Director of the ISSN International Centre to discuss the latest hot topics impacting the ISSN Network.