CIDEMIS: a new service for ISSN assignment and correction requests from French libraries

The ABES (French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) has launched a new system, CIDEMIS, jointly developed in partnership with the National Library of France and the ISSN International Centre, to dematerialize the workflow of ISSN assignment and correction requests sent by French libraries to the ISSN national centres.

CIDEMIS will enhance the rapidity and the efficiency of the whole process, by quickly providing the relevant information to national centres. It will also allow a better monitoring of the assignment and correction activity. These requests from a network of professionals in French libraries help improving the coverage and the accuracy of the ISSN register.

More information (in French): http://fil.abes.fr/2015/06/22/cidemis-ouverture-de-lapplication/

Two workshops will take place as part of ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) 2015 General Assembly to be held on 4th July 2015 in Hanover, Germany.

The Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC workshop) will focus on strategic thinking and future trends in open science and open data, and theTechnical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC) innovation workshop will deal with innovative information products and services that help STI more useable and accessible.

ISSN IC will also attend the 36th Conference of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL), an Associate Member of ICSTI, organized on 5-9th July in Hanover, under the heading « Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery

At the annual conference of the American Library Association in San Francisco, the US ISSN National Centre will give a presentation entitled “ISSN @ 40:  Past, Present, and Future” at the Library of Congress exhibit booth and the ALCTS Continuing Resources Update Forum will feature three presentations about ISSN.