REQUESTING AN ISSN

The ISSN are assigned by the ISSN International and National Centres.
ISSN assignment is free of charge!
Each National Centre has sole responsibility for assigning ISSN to the continuing resources
published in its country.
The International Centre is in charge of ISSN assignment for international publications and
for continuing resources issued in countries with no National Centre.

Publishers are invited to request an ISSN, when they intend to start the publication of a new
serial, or when the serial is not yet referenced in the ISSN Register (http://portal.issn.org).

How to request an ISSN number?

ISSN assignment requests must be completed very carefully and sent with the appropriate
surrogates of the serial.

Select the country of publication to submit your request:

• when appropriate, you will be redirected to the concerned National Centre,
• or you will be prompted to fill in the ISSN assignment request web form.

For a serial published by an International Organisation (for instance

UNESCO, OECD, WTO…), please select INTERNATIONAL
For a serial published by a multinational publisher (see the LIST of the
agreements for the ISSN assignments... between ISSN Centres), please
select the appropriate country / ISSN-Centre.

When a publication is issued in different media (print, online, CD-ROM), or different

language editions, etc... with the same title or not, different ISSN shall be assigned to the
different editions. In such cases, please request an ISSN for each version: complete separate
ISSN assignment requests and send the following elements:

for a print version: a sample or copies (in pdf or jpg files) of the cover, title and
editorial pages indicating the publisher's name & address.

for a CD-ROM version: a sample or copies (in pdf or jpg files) of the label or
carrier with the publisher's name & address.

for the online version: the URL access. Give a temporary password if the
resource is only available on subscription.

Please complete your ISSN assignment request now!

For further information or in case of any difficulty, please contact or +33 1
44 88 22 20