For us here at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, the ISSN data and the ISSN portal are more than just useful – they're absolutely essential for our day-to-day work as the centre that manages the ISSNs of the series published in Catalonia. We also receive series from all over the world and catalogue almost all of them at the full level, always including …
1975-2025:
96 countries working together
Over the years, a solid and diverse network has grown up around the ISSN on 5 continents. This constantly evolving network is the result of the cooperation and commitment of all National Centres. We aim to promote multilateralism through exemplary cooperation and governance involving all members of the network. Beyond the national centres, the richness of our organisation lies in the diversity of our clients, who have been loyal to us for many years. It is thanks to this long-term collaboration and the diversity of our partners that we continue to grow and offer increasingly personalised and efficient services.
Cambridge University Press has greatly valued the relationship with the ISSN International Centre over the years. Unsurprisingly, recent contact has focused on creating and confirming ISSNs for new journal publishing concepts we’ve launched in the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as in STM subjects. The process is mostly automated now and …
The U.S. ISSN Center began with a focus on data but quickly evolved to be one of the most prolific assigners of ISSNs. The Center was conceived in 1967 when the three U.S. national libraries: Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine (NLM), and National Agricultural Library (NAL) started the National Serials Data Project to study the …
ItalianISSN50YEARS – Making history: Italy among the ISSN founding countries In 1972, the Italian CNR Institute of Studies for Research and Scientific Documentation ISRDS launched the Project of the National Collective Archive of Periodicals ACNP, that responded to the increasingly felt need to locate periodicals in Italian libraries, and obtain …
The Australian ISSN Agency has been managed by the National Library of Australia since 1973. Current staff member Nikki White was the Agency’s second administrator from December 1973 to March 1974 and is still one of the team contributing to the Agency’s day to day operations. Nikki recalls the early days of telephoning publishers, preparing …
The former National Library of Canada (NLC) was designated the Canadian National Centre of the International Serials Data System (ISDS) in 1973. As a result, the Library created ISDS Canada, now known as ISSN Canada, who has been registering ISSN for Canadian serial publications since January 1974. This makes ISSN Canada one of the first national …
Hungary was involved in the work of the initially called International Serials Data System (ISDS) from its very beginning, thanks to Judith Szilvássy, founding director of the Hungarian ISSN National Centre. She worked at the National Széchényi Library for 33 years. Under her leadership the Hungarian ISDS National Centre was established in 1973, …
National Library of Thailand ISSN National Centre 1. Acting as the International Journal Information Center of Thailand in contacting and coordinating with the International Journal Information Center 2. Assign an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) to journals, magazines, newspapers to publishers and various departments 3. Manage journal …
ISSN in West Germany started as a project funded in 1974 by the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology to establish an ISSN Centre for the Federal Republic of Germany at the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt am Main. Also in 1974 an ISSN Centre for the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was established at the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig. Until …
ISSN UK Centre, Based within the British Library, Boston Spa. History 1974 – UK National Serials Data Centre (UKNSDC) is created 1976 – 2 nd ISSN Directors’ Meeting held in London 1992 – UKNSDC relocates from London to Boston Spa 1993 – UKNSDC renamed ISSN UK Centre 2010 – ISSN UK hosts the 35 th ISSN Directors’ Meeting at the British Library, …
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