The ISSN International Centre, with academic publisher Springer Nature, has just completed constructing a new, centralized process for the assignment of ISSN to periodicals and books series published by this publisher.

Read the press release.

The National Library of the Philippines has just launched its online application system for the assignment of identifiers, i.e. ISSN, ISBN and ISMN, to publications issued on the national territory.

This system is meant to provide better services for stakeholders and publishers.

For further inquiries please visit web.nlp.gov.ph or email issn@nlp.gov.ph.

For more information, you can watch this video.

ISSN International Centre will participate in IFLA WLIC 2021.

The Marketing team will hold a gold exhibitor virtual booth accessible through the exhibitors section. The showcase page will enable delegates to network with private, direct chat functions.

The Metadata department will be represented by Mikael Wetterstöm. As a liaison officer of the ISBD Review Group, he has an active part in the ISBD for Manifestation Task Force to review ISBD in the context of alignment with IFLA LRM model. He will present the revision work done so far by the group about the evolution of the data elements.  More information on IFLA website ISBD in transition.

The Keepers Registry has registered a significant increase of periodicals archived by the Chinese National Digital Preservation Programme for Scientific Literature, NDPP.

NDPP China is funded by National Science & Technology Library placed under the umbrellla of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China.  More than 200 research and academic libraries participate in this programme, operating with multiple preserving nodes at major institutions.
NDPP strives to promote research and practice of digital resource preservation in China, and also looks forward to exchange and cooperation with international experts and institutions.

ISSN International Centre will be a Gold Exhibitor at the World Library and Information Congress.

Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN International Centre, presented at NASIG 2021 conference an overview of the current ISSN services, and gathered suggestions and opinions on ISSN IC 2024 Strategy.

The ISSN International Centre has set up a KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) version of the free MARC data describing ROAD records, i.e. OA scholarly resources. This data is made available on BACON and can be reused under a CC0 license. KBART is a widely-used NISO Recommended Practice that facilitates the transfer of holdings metadata from content providers to knowledge base suppliers and libraries.

You can download ROAD records as a .csv file or as a json file.

Interconnection between the major national catalogues and the possibilities it offers for bouncing between different collections and bibliographic databases are at the heart of current Abes developments in terms of access to bibliographic resources. In order to facilitate cross-over uses, the interconnection of Sudoc and BnF catalogues has been strengthened by using the ARK identifier adopted by BnF.

Since March 2021, the ISSN International Centre/CIEPS has also implemented a direct link between ISSN Portal records and Sudoc localised records, an approach based on a comparable technical principle:

It is now envisaged to create this same reverse link, i.e. from Sudoc records to those of the ISSN Portal. Insofar as the reciprocal link already exists between the records in the BnF Catalogue and those in ISSN Portal, this would further strengthen the “virtuous circle” created between the three managing bodies, all three of which are involved in the creation and improvement of reliable bibliographic data on continuing resources, resources that are complex to describe and, moreover, evolving.

The ISSN National Centre Australia hosted by the National Library of Australia has modernised its ISSN allocation service. ISSN application and enquiry forms are now required for all correspondence. View the application form and read about ISSNs.

The ISSN National Centre of the Philippines will launch its International Standard Numbering System – Philippines Online Application System (INS-POAS) on 25 June 2021 through a recorded video which will be uploaded in the  National Library of the Philippines (NLP) website and Facebook page. INS-POAS is a web application system for Philippine publishers, accessible through the link: http://116.50.242.167/ins/.

The ISSN National Centre of the Philippines started operating in late 1975 with the National Science Development Board (NSDB) as the National Center. In 1981, the ISSN National Center was transferred to the National Library as part of its integrated bibliographic services. This is in keeping with the internationally accepted practice of establishing national centres within the framework of national libraries together with the national agency for ISBN as part of its supportive programs.