As the first and single entry point for the identification of all kind of print and digital serials and other continuing resources (retail, educational, and scholarly), the ISSN International Centre and the ISSN Network are the cornerstone of a wider system including the publishing industry, the distribution and retail industry, libraries, scholars and readers.

This consultancy mission will provide guidance to set up the new strategy of the ISSN International Centre for years 2020-2024.

More information available here.

The ISSN IC published on Friday, December 21^st, 2018 a “Request For Information” concerning the development of a new ISSN production tool.

Companies interested in the ISSN+ project  will send to the ISSN IC an application file the content of which is presented in the attached document.

Based on the criteria outlined in the RFI, ISSN IC will then retain several candidates and will forward to them detailed specifications. The RFI can be downloaded here.

Potential questions will be forwarded to informatique@issn.org by January 25th, 2019. The deadline for submitting applications is Thursday, January 31st, 2019 at noon (CET). Tenders should be sent to tenders@issn.org.

The ISSN International Centre has just published a Call for Expressions of Interest to supply its new production automated system.

To learn more, please click on the link below:

Call for Expressions of interest

Call for Expressions (Word version)

The ISSN International Centre will be exceptionally closed on Monday, August 14^th due to the maintenance of our IT network and servers.

 We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.

The ISSN-IC is launching a tender procedure for the development of a new Web Portal and Customer Extranet.

Please click on the link to see the announcement.

Thank you for your submission.

The IC Team

The ISSN network will meet on Friday 29 April, 2016 in Paris for its 21st General Assembly. This meeting will follow the Governing Board meeting to be held on April 26th and 27th.

On April 28th, ISSN IC is organising an International Conference entitled ” Bibliographic metadata getting linked: business cases and projects”

Click on the  Programme to learn more.

By invitation only.

This conference will be available through a streaming video as from April 28th (morning) from this link: http://chronovideo.com/ISSN

The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series 2016: Presentations now available!

Go to http://libraries.casalini.it/retreat/retreat_2016.html to discover the papers presented at the Fiesole conference organized by Casalini Libri from 6^th to 8^th April 2016. Gaëlle Béquet (ISSN IC), Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Graham Stone (University of Huddersfield) were the speakers invited by Helen Henderson (Information Power Ltd) to give a talk at the special session about identifiers on April 7^th.

The forthcoming ISSN General Assembly (21st meeting) will be held in Paris on April 29th, 2016.

This event will be preceded on April 28th by an International Conference  entitled “Bibliographic metadata going linked: business cases and projects “ , organised by ISSN IC.

The Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), a research unit under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), will host the 41st Meeting of the Directors of National Centres belonging to the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) network from November 7 to 11, 2016.

At the same time IBICT, with the support of the ISSN International Centre – the intergovernmental organization which has been coordinating the ISSN network since 1975- plans a workshop targeted at representatives from libraries and serial publishers associations from Latin America, be they already members or not of the ISSN Network. The aim is to promote greater coordination in the sectors of information and documentation between Latin American countries.

In order to prepare this meeting, IBICT  invites representatives of Embassies in charge of scientific and cultural cooperation to participate in a meeting to be held on February 25th at 10 a.m.. The meeting will take place next to IBICT facilities, in a Conference room (5th floor) located in Sector Municipalities, South Court 5, Lot 6, Conference in Brasilia. The provisional programme of the workshop will be presented as well as  the 41st Meeting of ISSN Directors.

The agenda of this meeting is as follows:

– Dr. Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, will present the objectives of the ISSN network and her vison for Latin America;

– Dr. Cecilia Leite, Director of IBICT, will briefly present the IBICT, its activities and how it participates in the ISSN Network;

– Dr. Lillian Alvares, general coordinator at IBICT, will specify the objectives of the workshop and give details on her expectations regarding the participation of Latin American countries.

Please send an email to taina@ibict.br to confirm your participation.