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ISSN IC @ CISPC 2021 Live Webinar about Sustainable development goals and scholarly communications (2 December 2021)

The ISSN IC Director, Dr. Gaelle Bequet, is a panelist on CISPC 2021 webinar about Sustainable development goals and scholarly communications that will be held remotely on 2 December 2021. ISSN IC sponsors this professional event that includes more webinars about Diversity in academic publishing and The future of hybrid events. Registration is free. More info at https://cispc-event.com/cispc-2021/

The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford endorses the Keepers Registry Statement (November 2nd 2021)

The ISSN International Centre is glad to announce that the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford - Open Scholarship Support have just endorsed the July 2016 statement Working together to Ensure the Future of the Digital Scholarly Records that summarizes the principles that guide Keepers Registry's development. The Bodleian Libraries (UK) is the latest to join all those that have already shown their support for KR, namely the Library of Congress (USA), Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (USA), International Alliance of Research Library Associations, Ivy Plus Libraries Collections Group (USA), Rede Cariniana Network (IBICT, Brazil), Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) (Canada), Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC, Australia), King’s College London (UK) and Faculdad de Ciencias De La Comunicacion Turismo Y Psicologia (Peru). More info here: https://keepers.issn.org

The ISSN International Centre is a sponsor of 2021 FORCE11 Online Conference

The ISSN International Centre is glad to support the 2021 FORCE11 Online Conference as Platinum Sponsor. This conference will focus on a number of relevant topics for the ISSN Network, e.g. Research assessment, Scholarly communications role in the sustainable development goals, Governance of open science and Science discoverability. Dr. Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will give a presentation on Dec. 8th about the Project JASPER that aims to provide sustainable archiving solutions for OA journals. The conference program is available at https://force2021.sched.com/

ISSN International Centre @ Charleston Library Conference

Dr Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN International Centre, will participate in a panel session titled Strategic Frontiers in Digital Preservation that will take place on 3 November. In this session, the perspectives of libraries, publishers, and service providers will be explored on key strategic digital preservation issues. Participants will learn about recent initiatives and hear expert reflections on the fundamental requirements to ensure that scholarly material is adequately preserved in efficient and cost-effective ways for future scholars. The full agenda of the conference is online : https://2021charlestonconference.pathable.co/

ISSNIC @MARC Advisory Committee on January 26, 2022

The ISSN International Centre and the Finnish National Library will present a MARC21 discussion paper on web archive information in the 856 tag to the MARC Advisory Committee on January 26, 2022 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET (online meeting). The paper can be accessed here: https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2022/2022-dp02.html The full agenda for the meeting is here: https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/mw2022_age.html

Director of ISSN International Centre to chair 2022 ISO TC46 Annual Meeting (10-20 May 2022, remote)

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will chair the 2022 ISO TC46 Annual Meeting that will again take place remotely. About thirty meetings are scheduled online to discuss current standardization initiatives in the fields of information and documentation.

24th General Assembly of the ISSN Network (2-5 May 2022, remote)

The 24th General Assembly of the ISSN Network will take place remotely this week. Due to the still uncertain health situation, the in-person meeting and conference planned in Paris have been cancelled.

The ISSN International Centre @ 2022 ABES Annual Conference (21-22 June)

The ISSN International Centre will participate in the conference held by ABES, the French academic libraries network, to be held on 21-22 June 2022. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Dpt., will deliver a presentation about the participation of the ISSN Network in CIDEMIS, the Dematerialized Circuit of ISSN Requests for ISSN assignment and data modifications. She will present services based on ISSN as well as avenues for future cooperation with ABES. The agenda is available here : https://abes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/programme-journees-abes-2022.pdf