The ISSN International Centre will present its ISSN List Submission Service at the 38th NASIG Conference, May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This service has been created to meet the needs of libraries willing to check the quality of serial identifiers in their catalogues and retrieve information from the Keepers Registry regarding the long-term preservation of the journals they hold in their collections. This service is currently being tested with the University of California at Davis. The presentation is scheduled 23 May 2023 at 2.45 p.m. EDT. The global programme is available.

Gracias a la implementación de la nueva herramienta interna de catalogación ISSN Plus (ISSN+), la cual complementa y optimiza las funcionalidades del Portal ISSN, el servicio que brinda el Centro Nacional ISSN Perú (CN-ISSN) a través de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP) ha mejorado respecto a los registros y metadatos que describen a las publicaciones seriadas peruanas y demás recursos continuos. Una de las principales ventajas que ofrece ISSN Plus (ISSN+), es la actualización casi inmediata de los datos en el portal ISSN (https://portal.issn.org/) respecto a los recursos que han sido asignados con un número ISSN. El CN-ISSN, que funciona en la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú desde el año 2021, es uno de los centros nacionales de la Red ISSN que empezó a utilizar con éxito esta novedosa herramienta.

The place of publication determines the ISSN Centre responsible for identification. However, when a publisher operates in several countries, an agreement may be reached between this multinational publisher and the involved ISSN Centres so that all requests for identification are handled by one centre. The ISSN Network has created a public list identifying more than 300 multinational publishers. These publishers have been spotted through the ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org) data. The ISSN International Centre works with the National Centres on this list of publishers to determine their responsibility for identifying the publications of these publishers. The list also contains information on the names by which these publishers are known and a mapping of relationships between publishers. It also contains a link to the ISNI and VIAF databases. This data is managed by the ISSN Network in an internal wiki that will be updated regularly. Projects to disseminate the list more widely will be launched shortly.

A project to verify and assign electronic ISSNs for journals published on Persee has improved their reporting in Mir@bel. Since March 2022, about a hundred title families have been added to Mir@bel, in addition to about 40 eISSNs that have been assigned. All of Persee’ title families are now visible in Mir@bel (517 titles for 400 journals in January).

The National Diet Library in Japan hosts the Japanese National Centre for ISSN. The National Centre has recently updated its webpage in English supplying information on the requirements and procedures for ISSN registration.

Koffi Attede, Director of the National Library of Benin, and his team organized a meeting with Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, in Porto Novo on 1 March 2023. The National Library of Benin, which has hosted the ISSN National Centre of Benin since 2000, is undergoing a major renovation as part of an ambitious program to offer better services to publishers and patrons both onsite and online. ISSN and ISBN requests can now be submitted online.

The 2023 NISO+ Conference focused on persistent identifiers (PIDs)! Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, moderated one session about the fragmentation of the PID landscape and the recommendations made by Knowledge Exchange in their latest report to implement PIDs. She spoke at the session dealing with the interoperability and the diversity of PIDs . Last but not least, she moderated the session about PIDs for humanities researchers.

The international cooperation between ISSN International Centre and ZBW is expanding in the context of digital preservation. The ZBW is the first German academic library to become a “Keeper” for the ISSN International Centre. The ZBW is responsible for the digital preservation of nearly 2,000 journals and other serial resources in economics and will list them in the ISSN Portal. Digital preservation at the ZBW has been awarded the international Core Trust Seal in 2020 and is the first institution in Germany to have achieved three certifications: the Data Seal of Approval, the nestor-Seal and also the CoreTrustSeal.

Mikael Wetterström, Specialist in Automated Processing of Bibliographic Data at ISSN International Centre, will participate in the ISBD webinar to be held on 26 January 2023.

A major revision of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) was decided in 2018 by the IFLA Committee on Standards and the IFLA ISBD Review Group, aiming at aligning the ISBD to the overarching conceptual model provided by IFLA, the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM). The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force is working out an alignment of the ISBD with LRM at the Manifestation level (ISBDM).

Join this webinar on 26 January 2023, from 3 to 6 pm CET (GMT/UTC+1)!

Attendance is free, but registration is required. The full programme is announced on IFLA website.

MARC21 Update No. 35 released 21 December 2022 is now available on the MARC website. The documentation includes changes made to the MARC 21 formats resulting from proposals which were considered by the MARC 21 community since the publication of Update No. 34 (July 2022), including the joint proposal from the ISSN International Centre and the National Finnish Library about the Field 856. There is now a subfield to track persistant identifiers ($g) as well as a subfield for non-functioning URIs ($h). Changes and new text appear in red on this page.