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New ISSN international centre in Peru
The ISSN International Centre has announced the opening of the 93rd ISSN National Centre in Lima, Peru. The Peruvian ISSN Centre is hosted
by the National Library of Peru and is the newest registration agency for ISO 3297, the standard for the identification of serials and continuing resources. Ezio Neyra Magagna, director of the National Library of Peru, said: ‘The opening of the national ISSN Center in Peru is a very relevant event for our country and our National Library, in the context of the 200th anniversary of its creation in 1821. Many thanks to the ISSN International Center for its co-operation and guidance during the process of implementation in Peru.’
Gaelle Bequet, director of the ISSN
International Centre, added: ‘2021 is a very successful year for the ISSN Network, with three consecutive openings of national centers: ISSN Ukraine in March 2021, ISSN Austria in April 2021 and ISSN Peru in August 2021. ‘Our teams of information professionals
in Kiev, Lima, Paris and Vienna have been instrumental to achieve this expansion. ‘The recent commitment of the National
Library of Peru to promote ISSN is a pledge of success for this persistent identifier in Latin America.’
About the National Library of Peru The National Library of Peru was founded on 28 August 1821, a month after the proclamation of the independence of Peru by General Don José de San Martín, who signed the decree for its creation. The first cultural institution in Peru is an executing agency and governing body of the National Library System, assigned to the Ministry of Culture. The National Library of Peru is the depository centre of the Peruvian
bibliographic, digital, documentary, film, photographic and musical cultural heritage, as well as the international collections that it possesses in order to promote cultural, scientific and technological development. Through the management of the legal deposit, ISBN and ISSN, it promotes the standardisation of publications and facilitates the development of the country’s publishing sector.
About the ISSN International Centre Officially created in Paris on 21 January 1976, the ISSN International Centre is an intergovernmental organisation that co- ordinates the activities of 93 ISSN National Centres hosted in its member countries. The ISSN International Centre provides online services such as the ISSN Portal that supplies quality identification metadata for more than 2.5 million journal titles and continuing resources. Each year, the ISSN Portal grows by about 60,000 new serial titles identified and described by the ISSN Network.
Dimensions Life Sciences & Chemistry launched
Digital Science has launched a version of its Dimensions platform, Dimensions Life Sciences & Chemistry, to focus on those research activities. Dimensions L&C analyses more than 120 million scientific publications, millions of patents, grants and clinical trial documents. Unlike traditional manually curated tools, it applies up-to-the- minute semantic text analysis tools and ontologies, providing up-to-date discovery functionality that it says was previously unavailable at such scale. Thanks to insights systematically
captured in ontologies and computational power, Digital Science says, researchers can get answers to complex and diverse queries directly from the source content. Users can search for small molecules, chemical reactions and gene sequences, validate biomarkers, understand disease mechanisms and identify drug targets. They can also quickly discover relevant chemical information in broader life sciences and chemistry research areas, working with a chemistry structure editor and a biosequence search for nucleotides and proteins. Different from other products, data is identified in full-text documents on a daily basis, creating a highly
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comprehensive and up-to-date resource. Digital Science recently announced
a collaboration with OntoChem (www.
ontochem.com). Dimensions L&C uses the ontologies from OntoChem, which include around 40 million concepts and 100 million synonyms from more than 35 knowledge domains such as compounds, proteins, diseases, drugs, materials, methods, devices or species, enabling a high quality, context-sensitive knowledge discovery tool. Christian Herzog, CEO at Dimensions, said: ‘There is an ever-growing publication
haystack and researchers need to find the needles of information quickly and efficiently.
‘In the past you needed to know what
to ask the search engine in order to find it, but with Dimensions L&C, we are now providing next generation discoverability for life sciences and chemistry researchers: an ontology driven retrieval engine which identifies relationships and links in more than 120 million publications – allowing the researcher to move on from search to AI-supported discovery.’
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