WEB pages on ISSN now available ISSN International Centre 24 Mar 1995 15:08 UTC
(it is possible that you might receive this message through different channels : please excuse any unintentional cross-posting) The ISSN International Centre (situated in Paris, France) has the pleasure to announce that its bilingual (English/French) WEB information pages are now available. The use of the ISSN is essential throughout the serials chain of supply, from publisher (and now even from the author of every single contribution) to the reader, through document delivery utilities, abstracting and indexing services, subscription agents, libraries, union catalogues, newsagents...., for the efficient management of research, ordering and cataloguing. To date, more than 720,000 serials published in 180 countries have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN network (63 National Centres). The ISSN Register is published on microfiche, CD-ROM (ISSN Compact) and tape. The ISSN WEB pages give basic information about the ISSN, ISSN assignment, the ISSN network and related subjects (ISSN based barcoding of serials : EAN 13, SISAC, SICI...). You will find in particular the list of ISSN National Centres (together with their postal and E-mail addresses) which should be contacted for any problem related to ISSN assignment for the serials of the corresponding countries. We take this opportunity to remind the community of ISSN users (libraries, union catalogues, subscription agents, publishers...) that ISSN may be assigned on request to publications which do not yet have one. It should also be noted that ISSN are assigned to serial publications of any physical medium (paper, microfiche, CD-ROM, online...). The ISSN International Centre coordinates the network and is responsible for the assignment of ISSN to serials published by international organizations or by publishers situated in countries which do not yet have an ISSN National Centre. Any suggestion concerning the ISSN WEB pages is welcome; do not hesitate to contact us for any further information. Establishing new World Wide Web links pointing to the ISSN WEB pages in library or serials related WEB servers is also warmly encouraged. The electronic address of the ISSN WEB pages is : http://www.well.com/www/issnic Pierre Godefroy Assistant to the Director ---------------------------------------------------------------- Centre international de l'ISSN ISSN International Centre 20 rue Bachaumont 75002 PARIS (FRANCE) tel : (33 1)44 88 22 20 fax : (33 1)40 26 32 43 E-mail : issnic@well.com Information sur l'ISSN / Information on ISSN (World Wide Web) : http://www.well.com/www/issnic ----------------------------------------------------------------