The ISSN International Centre, with academic publisher Springer Nature, has just completed constructing a new, centralized process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to periodicals and books series published by Springer Nature and its brands which include Springer, Nature Portfolio, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan and Scientific American. It involves the automated ISSN assignment to pre-publications through transfer of metadata from Springer Nature to the ISSN International Centre which dispatches the metadata to ISSN National Centres, e.g. ISSN Germany, ISSN Singapore, ISSN Switzerland, ISSN UK and ISSN USA.
The completion of the pilot offers both the ISSN Network and the publisher enhanced workflow benefits.
Springer Nature has one point of contact for all new ISSN assignments and can use a unique and internationally recognized standard identifier to track serial publications in its internal production system and in transactions with business partners.
The ISSN International Centre can quickly populate and update the ISSN Portal in an earlier publishing stage while significantly improving the overall identification of journals and books series. 1,309 Springer Nature new titles were identified in 2020 compared to 457 in 2010 and 593 in 2015. ISSN National Centres greatly contribute by updating the description when the publication is eventually issued. The 2020 ISSN International Centre Activity Report provides the complete description of the workflow including statistics.
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