International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

2015/07/13

Press Release: ISSN: 40 years of identification for serial publications

If the ISSN did not exist, someone would have to invent it! 

Fortunately, that work was accomplished 40 years ago and in the intervening years, the ISSN has become a crucial part of the serials and electronic resources landscape. 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the ISSN International Centre and its Network which were formally established in 1975 under the terms of an agreement signed between UNESCO and France, the host country of the International Centre.

For the past 40 years, the ISSN International Centre has developed its network of member countries that now total 89 and span five continents.  The ISSN International Centre is responsible for maintaining and publishing the ISSN International Register and products such as the ISSN Portal, the subscription database of ISSN metadata records.  The International Centre also supports and trains ISSN centers, and coordinates the harmonization of metadata among the bibliographic network and with the wider community of librarians and publishers. It is also responsible for assigning ISSN to international publications and publications of countries that do not yet have ISSN centres. The International Centre is currently implementing its new strategic plan which focuses on the sustainability of the ISSN system and its extension.

  •  KEY FACTS & FIGURES

The ISSN Register contains more than 1.8 million ISSN bibliographic records.

About 60,000 new ISSN records are created annually.

100,000 records are modified annually.

89 National Centres have been established worldwide.

ISSN records are available in various formats (MARC 21- UTF 8; UNIMARC, MARC XML).

The ISSN Register is online as the ISSN Portal (http://portal.issn.org), and also available through the OAI-PMH and Z39.50 protocols.

ROAD (http://road.issn.org) provides free access to those ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources that are fully Open Access: journals, conference proceedings, scholarly blogs, monographic series and academic repositories.

 

Please have a look at our blog to discover ISSN history and people: http://40years.issn.org.

  •  JOIN US AT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS!

Summer 2015: A special 40th anniversary issue with articles on different aspects of ISSN history and use, written by members of the ISSN community, will be published in English in the Brazilian journal “Ciencia Da Informaçao”, (ISSN 0100-1965, volume 44).

27-28 June 2015: 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.

10 August 2015: The National Library of Colombia will organize a national workshop on “Colombian Serial Publications: profiles and prospects.” The ISSN International Centre will make a presentation about its current projects.

15-21 August 2015: The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at IFLA conference in Cape Town in South Africa (booth n°E127).

7 September 2015: Edina and the ISSN International Centre will organize the conference Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on the Stewardship and Archiving of E-journals and Serials in Edinburgh (Scotland).

14-18 October 2015: The ISSN International Centre will exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany (booth ILC, 4.2).

4th November 2015: The Bibliothèque nationale de France will organize a one-day conference about the identification of serial publications facing the digital transition: a tribute to ISSN’s 40th aniversary.

Fall 2015: An article about the history of ISSN IC will be published in the journal Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.

Check out the 40th anniversary blog to learn more: http://40years.issn.org/category/events/

  •  Contact

Email: sales(at)issn.org

ISSN Website: www.issn.org

ROAD website: http://road.issn.org

Blog: http://40years.issn.org

Facebook: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/ISSNInternationalCentre

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISSN_IC

Slideshare: http://fr.slideshare.net/ISSNIC40

2015/07/09

Conference organised by ISSN Colombia: 10th August, 2015

The National Library of Colombia & ISSN Centre  (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) are happy to invite you to their Second Academic Conference about the Colombian serials, entitled : “Segunda Jornada Académica: Las Publicaciones Seriadas Colombianas: Panorama y Perspectivas”

  • date:  Monday 10th August, at 08:00 a.m.
  • Place :

– Morning meeting: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA – Room: AUDITORIO: FÉLIX RESTREPO – Avenida Carrera 7 No. 43 – 82 (North entrance)

-Afternoon meeting: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA – Room: GERMAN ARCINIEGAS – Calle 24 No. 5 – 80

Please click on the following link to see the agenda: AGENDA – SEGUNDA JORNADA ACADÉMICA 

2015/07/01

CIDEMIS, new web-based application developed by ABES

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/