On October 2nd, IC Director, Mrs Béquet will meet with the staff of ISSN National centre of Spain in Madrid.

7^th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP)

This conference held in Amsterdam, from September 15^th-17th, 2015, was organised by OASPA, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, in order to exchange information about standards, OA mandates, business models, metrics and innovative practices in scholarly communication.

This was the opportunity to meet publishers and other stakeholders of the OA community, to promote the use ROAD and to discuss its future directions.

On August 11th, Dr. Khomotso Marumo, Director of the Bibliographic Services and Collections Management at the National Library of South Africa, met Mr Clément Oury (Head of Data, Network and Standards Department at IC).