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ISSN Denmark

Member since 1975

By Marie Kolind Krogsgaard / Katrine Marie Schrøder

1975: the Danish national centre was established in the Royal Library, where publications have been received through the legal deposit system established in 1697.
Denmark was one of the first countries, which was able to send tapes to Paris.

On a brown-yellow page, a red print features what looks like an oriental sovereign and subjects of his. In the top-right corner we can read ISSN 0461-5298. — Denmark's first journal with ISSN

2003: it was decided to align the rules and follow the principles of ISSN. Before that time ISSN and the ”Danish national bibliography. Serials” were based on different cataloguing rules.
2019: we changed from a local Danish format danMARC to MARC21. However, it causes some challenges because the Danish national Library database still uses danMARC.

A close-up of two women holding a binder face camera, showing a list of ISSNs with handwritten comments. Some ISSNs are crossed out. — A part of the team

2023: at the end of the year we have added more than 33.000 records to the ISSN Portal. We send files to the ISSN IC once a week.
Directors : Lise Hesselager 1975-1992, Esther Skaarup 1993-2008, Michael Lukas Petersen 2009, Katrine Schrøder 2010-

We are grateful for the cooperation (regarding all kinds of problems with periodicals) with the ISSN Network and the IC, both at the Directors Meetings and by mail. – HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to all of us!