Publications with ISSN
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26697/publisher.4.3
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) – International Standard Serial Number – a unique number used to identify a printed or electronic periodical. It consists of 8 digits. The 8th digit is a check digit, calculated from the previous seven and the modulus 11. The international standard ISO 9 1995 is used to translate Cyrillic letters into Latin.
The ISSN system was adopted as the international standard ISO 3297 in 1975 and updated in 2007. Any periodical (a publication issued in consecutive parts, having numerical or chronological designations without a specified end of issue) can receive an ISSN. It can be a newspaper, a weekly magazine, a yearbook, or an electronic publication (CD, website). For different media versions of publications (printed edition, CD, website), obtaining a separate ISSN number is necessary, even if the title is the same.
Why do you need to set ISSN/ISBN?
In publishing houses, ISSN/ISBN is used during the following work:
- identification of the title of the publication in publishing catalogs and advertising brochures;
- management of the inventory of finished products;
- processing orders;
- preparation of invoices and accounting reports;
- monitoring sales;
- processing statistical data;
- processing data on publications returned as unsold;
- Compiling a list of publications in directories on paper and electronic media, as well as websites on the Internet.
In the Book Chamber of Ukraine, ISSN/ISBN is used for:
- state bibliographic registration of publications;
- creation of state bibliographic indexes;
- creation of a national bibliography database;
- creation of subject indexes and directories.
In the book distribution system of the "Books in Print" type (books in sale and production), book distribution and wholesale organizations use ISBN when:
- creating a database of publications that are on sale and those that have already been sold;
- creating bibliographic databases and catalogs for the book trade;
- servicing orders, in particular those received via the Internet;
- monitoring internal logistics processes;
- controlling the inventory of finished products;
- monitoring internal processes of planning and ensuring material and technical supply;
- issuing invoices and accounting reports;
- processing sales data.
In bookstores, ISSN/ISBN is used during:
- searching for bibliographic data;
- searching for the address of the publisher or book distributor;
- ordering publications, in particular via the Internet;
- managing stocks of publishing products;
- making payments to the buyer;
- using an electronic cash register system.
In libraries, ISSN/ISBN is used during:
- ordering publications;
- information search;
- creating consolidated catalogs;
- cataloging publications;
- international book exchange;
- interlibrary book exchange;
- creating bibliographic databases;
- compiling book exchange statistics.
International numbering standards
- ISO 2108: International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
- ISO 3297: International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- ISO 3901: International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
- ISO 10957: International Standard Music Number (ISMN)
- ISO 15511: International Standard Identifier for Libraries... (ISIL)
- ISO 15706: International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN)
- ISO 15707: International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)
- ISO 21047: International Standard Text Code (ISTC)
- ISO 26324: Digital object identifier/Digital Object Identifier System (DOI)
- ISO 27729: International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)