ISSN IC Director and Chair of ISO TC46 Information and Documentation, Gaëlle Béquet will open the conference organized by AFNOR and Bibliothèque nationale de France about standards that improve the quality of services to users. This event will take place at BnF, François Mitterrand Building, on Oct. 11^th, 2019 (9.00 – 17.00). Registration and program available at https://www.afnor.org/evenement/afnor-bnf-qualite-service-usagers-normes-volontaires/

The 11th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 24-26 September 2019. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network Department, will attend the conference. This is the opportunity for ISSN International Centre to hear about new trends in Open Access, all of which might interest the development of ROAD, the ISSN Directory of Open Access Resources.

ISSN IC will participate in the 16^th International Conference about Digital Preservation by giving a lightning talk about the Keepers’ Registry (thekeepers.org) that will soon be added to the portfolio of services provided by the ISSN Portal (portal.issn.org). Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Peter Burnhill, Advisor to the ISSN IC Director, will meet with supporting archiving agencies attending iPRES on Sept. 19^th, 2019. Conference program is available at https://ipres2019.org/ .