List of multinational publishers of serial publications established by the ISSN Network

The ISSN International Centre and the ISSN Network of nearly 100 national centres around the world are authorized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to implement serial identification according to the terms of ISO3297:2022 standard. The ISSN Network serves publishers who wish to uniquely identify their serial publications. These publishers contact the National Centres of the countries where they are located. When there is no national centre, they contact the ISSN International Centre. The place of publication determines the ISSN Centre responsible for identification. However, when a publisher operates in several countries, an agreement may be reached between this multinational publisher and the involved ISSN Centres so that all requests for identification are handled by one centre. This list identifies more than 300 multinational publishers. These publishers have been identified through the ISSN Portal (https://portal.issn.org) data. The ISSN International Centre works with the National Centres on this list of publishers to determine their responsibility for identifying the publications of these publishers. The list also contains information on the names by which these publishers are known and a mapping of links between publishers. It also contains a link to the ISNI and VIAF databases in which these publishers are also recorded. This data is managed by the ISSN Network in an internal wiki that will be updated regularly. The ISSN Network makes this list available to the publishing community and to librarians. They can contact the ISSN International Centre to share comments (additions, modifications, deletions) on this list which will be published quarterly