The ISSN International Centre is pleased to announce that the United Arab Emirates will open its own ISSN National Centre on 21 October 2025. This new centre will serve as the national point of contact for serials and other continuing resources published in the UAE. It will support publishers, libraries and cultural institutions with the assignment of ISSNs and the provision of high-quality bibliographic metadata.

This addition will strengthen the global ISSN Network and enhance the visibility and discoverability of UAE periodicals — both print and digital — across library catalogues, indexing services, and supply chains.

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Carlos Authier (Director of the ISSN Centre in Argentina), Ana María Cetto and José Octavio Alonso Gamboa (in charge of the Latindex network in Mexico) emphasise the importance of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for scientific production. In their article, they examine how journals indexed in DOAJ and Latindex’s Catalogo 2.0 use PIDs. Read their paper, which is the final piece in the “50 Years of the ISSN International Centre” series published by the Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.

Read here: The Importance of Persistent Identifiers: The Vision of Latindex

The French version of this article was published in the Bulletin des bibliothèques de France on 24 September 2025. See https://urlr.me/EKmwBz.

While the ISSN network is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, the Indian centre is celebrating its thirty-ninth year.

Sanjaykumar Burde, Head of the National Science Library and the Indian ISSN National Centre, looks back over the institution’s history and analyses the changes that have shaped it.

Click here to read the article in English: 39 Years of the Indian ISSN Centre Evolution, Achievements, and Future Outlook

The French version of this article was published in the Bulletin des bibliothèques de France on 17 September 2025. See https://urlr.me/tnbH4S.