ISSN INDIA National Science Library, CSIR-NISCAIR

New Delhi

Indian National Centre for ISSN

Overview

● National Institute of Science Communication and information Resources (Erstwhile INSDOC) has been designated as the Centre for assigning ISSN to serial publications published in India since 1986.

● The ISSN National Centre based in New Delhi and the National Science Library serves as the National Centre For ISSN.

● National Science Library (NSL) has more than 2,51,000 printed collection of S&T documents which includes monographs, bound volumes of journals, reports, thesis/dissertations, standards and patents etc.

● NSL objective to be a national repository for reports of scientific work of nation.

History of ISSN in India

● The first Print ISSN assigned by Indian Centre was in January,1986 to the serial Pratibuddha ISSN 0970-0005.

● From the year of 1986-2008, assigned ISSN records were transmitted to the International Centre on typed worksheets along with cover page and content page of the serials.

● From the year of 1986 -2012, ISSN and serials detail were recorded in bound ledgers.

● From the year of 2009 Indian ISSN Centre started using Virtua client for transmission of ISSN records to the International Centre.

● In the year 2013, all ISSN ledger records were successfully automated and displayed on National Science Library website to avoid duplication of records and public access.

First ISSN Ledger from 1986

Indian Centre regularly updates assigned ISSN details on National Science Library website http://nsl.niscair.res.in/

ISSN Indian Centre revitalised online submission of application from February, 2015 by which the applicant can view their assignment status.

Over the past 28 years, 18774 ISSN assigned to serials published in India

● Indian Centre regularly updates ISSN guidelines according to International Centre ISSN assignment policy.

● 1243 open access journals from India found place in ROAD Directory from January 2014.

“Dr. Peter Burnhill in National Science Library, CSIR-NISCAIR, India”

National Science Library organized a programme “ISSN & RNI: a tale of two numbers” on 16th March, 2015.Ther RNI registration number assigned by the Registrar of Newspapers in India is another number that is important for print periodicals published in India. National Centre planning to make it mandatory for the publishers to get the title verification done from RNI before applying for ISSN.Dr. Peter Burnhill, Director, EDINA, Edinburgh University who has been associated with the ISSN International Centre, Paris also visited National Science Library and give a presentation on “Using a dumb identifier to do smart things”.

Shobhna VijSr. Technical Officer and

ISSN In-charge

G. Mahesh(Principal Scientist)

Head of the National Science Library and Indian ISSN Centre

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