ProQuest and the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) International Centre are joining forces to improve the electronic loading and matching of serial titles for any product or system. The organisations are pinpointing active serial titles without an ISSN and assigning an appropriate identifier. Under the supervision of the International Centre, national ISSN Centers determine whether the ISSN is simply missing, or has never been assigned.
The outcome of the project will be a huge benefit to librarians, publishers, and vendors as more serial titles will have ISSNs registered in the ISSN International Register compiled by the ISSN network and in the Ulrich's Periodicals Directory® and Ulrichsweb™ references.
Representatives of the ISSN International Centre based in Paris and ProQuest's content team in New Providence, New Jersey first discussed the idea in November 2014. A pilot project was started in February 2015, using the Ulrich's Periodicals Directory reference as the initial resource to find active serial records from the Netherlands without an ISSN. Over the last few months, the Ulrich's team, the ISSN International Centre, and the Netherlands ISSN Center have been discussing the findings and improving the process.
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