The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials. More than one million ISSN numbers have so far been assigned.
It is managed by a world wide network of 85 National Centres [1] coordinated by an International Centre [2] based in Paris, backed by Unesco and the French Government. The ISSN is used by various partners throughout the information chain: libraries, subscription agents, researchers, information scientists, newsagents (through its barcode version).
The world database of ISSN numbers (and the corresponding bibliographic records), known as the ISSN Register [3], is available through a Web interface, The ISSN Portal [4], which may be freely evaluated and tested for a period of one month. The ISSN products may be subscribed to through our order form [5].
Publishers or other interested parties (libraries, documentation centres...) may request the assignment of an ISSN [6] to a given periodical, if it does not yet have one.
It is managed by a world wide network of 85 National Centres [1] coordinated by an International Centre [2] based in Paris, backed by Unesco and the French Government. The ISSN is used by various partners throughout the information chain: libraries, subscription agents, researchers, information scientists, newsagents (through its barcode version).
The world database of ISSN numbers (and the corresponding bibliographic records), known as the ISSN Register [3], is available through a Web interface, The ISSN Portal [4], which may be freely evaluated and tested for a period of one month. The ISSN products may be subscribed to through our order form [5].
Publishers or other interested parties (libraries, documentation centres...) may request the assignment of an ISSN [6] to a given periodical, if it does not yet have one.