“Complete ISSN data” is a complete set of bibliographic data elements that constitute a full description for a serial publication in the ISSN Register, plus additional data extracted from authority databases. Depending on the resources, it may include for example:
- Other variant titles,
- Subject,
- Current and earliest Publishers,
- Corporate editor name,
- ISNI,
- Dates of publication,
- Frequency,
- Type of resource,
- Language,
- Coverage by abstracting and indexing databases,
- Related publications,
- Links to external resources.
Complete ISSN data on open access scholarly publications included in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) are accessible for free via the Free Access Portal.