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ISSN Portal: the full Data package

The ISSN Portal is a web-based interface available at http://portal.issn.org. The portal gives access to the ISSN Register, the international database which contains key identification information about print and digital journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and scholarly blogs and Open Access scholarly resources published in more than 100 countries.

You can find and reuse standardized identification data for more than 1,8 million print titles and more than 200,000 digital titles. 60,000 new titles are added each year by our network of professional librarians. ISSN data is amended on a regular basis with more than 130,000 updates each year.

The ISSN Register is thus the most complete and international reference database for the identification of serial publications.

The main features of the ISSN Portal are:

  • - Key ISSN data released as Linked Open Data,
  • - Simple, advanced and expert search options on titles already published or to be published shortly,
  • - Faceted searches including search by subject classification,
  • - ISSN data enriched by information provided by partners such as ISNI International Agency, Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals among others,
  • - Enhanced display features including timeline, geolocation of publications, title history and title relations,
  • - ISSN data available for download in a variety of formats such as MARC 21, UNIMARC, MARC XML, RDF/XML, RDF turtle, Json,…
  • - Retrieval of identification information by uploading lists of ISSN.

For further enquiry about our services, please contact the Sales department of the ISSN International Centre.

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Automated access protocols

Through APIs

You need to automatically update your database on a regular basis or to automatically access metadata corresponding to local ISSN. You can choose to access the ISSN International Register via APIs.

For further informations and a free quote, please contact the Sales department of the ISSN International Centre.

OAI-PMH protocol

You need to automatically update your local version of the ISSN International Register on a regular basis or to automatically access metadata corresponding to ISSN: choose to access the ISSN International Register via the OAI-PMH protocol.

  • With this protocol you can:
  • - closely monitor changes in the ISSN International Register at a pace adapted to your needs (monthly, weekly, daily, etc.).
  • - automatically access at any time a record in the ISSN International Register by performing a search by ISSN,
  • - potentially feed into theme-based portals using predefined profiles.

Your application sends http queries to our server, which replies with a flow of data (bibliographic records) in Marc XML.

The protocol specifications are freely accessible on the Openarchives

To request any additional information, please contact the Sales department of the ISSN International Centre.

 

 
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ISSN Premium: Data updating service

You would like us to check the quality of your data, update your records, compare files, extract specific data elements? Are you looking for ISSN associated with a list of titles? E-ISSN or ISSN-L? Name of publishers? Countries of publication? Dates of publication? Languages of publication? Or maybe you know the ISSN, but you are not sure whether it is valid and you would like to get the corresponding metadata?

You can send us your files to process and the ISSN International Centre will provide you with updated data in a tabulated format, based on the criteria of your choice:

  • - by country,
  • - by publisher,
  • - by title,
  • - by ISSN, etc.

For further enquiry about our services, please contact the Sales department of the ISSN International Centre.

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Submit.Retrieve.Reuse : Submission of list of ISSNs

Submit.Retrieve.Reuse: Fix and enhance your serial metadata!

This service offered by the ISSN International Centre gives you the possibility to check the validity of the ISSNs in your database by comparing your data to the ISSN Register and to retrieve archival information from the Keepers Registry.

- Step 1: Submit your list of ISSNs in a table

- Step 2: Get a report on the quality of your data as shown in the example below

Processed lines

97

Processed ISSNs

97

Unknown or invalid ISSNs

0

Valid ISSNs

97

Duplicate ISSNs

184

Lines with several ISSN-L

0

ISSNs in category 'Free'

0

ISSNs in category 'Cancelled'

0

ISSNs in category 'Suppressed'

0

ISSNs in category 'Legacy'

0

- Step 3: Retrieve the core ISSN metadata as well as information from Keepers Registry, ROAD and other indexing services.

ISSNs

Valid ISSNs

ISSN-L

Diagnostics

Cluster Title

Keepers agencies

Keepers preservation years

Publisher (Keepers' agency metadata)

Indexed by

Road

0039-7318

0039-7318

0039-7318

 

The Swedish journal of economics

 

 

 

CROSSREF MIRABEL

 

1467-9442

1467-9442

0347-0520

1467-9442: Duplicates another ISSN in the file.

The Scandinavian journal of economics

Scholars Portal
Internet Archive
CLOCKSS Archive
Portico
National Library of the Netherlands

1997-2023
1988-2011
1997-2023
1997-2023
2006-2007

Wiley
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Blackwell Publishing

CROSSREF ECONLIT MIRABEL PUBMED SCOPUS THE KEEPERS

 

- Step 4: Use these results to update your own database

This service is available on subscription.

To request any additional information, please contact the Sales department of the ISSN International Centre.