1) The document discusses the ISSN Network and its services for tracking and identifying serial publications, including the ISSN Register containing over 2 million records and the Keepers Registry for monitoring digital archiving arrangements. 2) It provides statistics on ISSN assignments and metrics like a rise in digital publications and assignments from countries like Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil. 3) It outlines future plans like the JASPER initiative to preserve open access journals, expanding the types of resources eligible for ISSNs, and promoting interoperability between ISSN data and other identification systems.

1. From the Cradle to the Digital vault:
Tracking the Path of e-journals
Dr. Gaelle BEQUET
ISSN International Centre

2. • The ISSN Network in 2021
• The ISSN Standard
• A few ISSN Metrics
• ISSN Suite of Services
• Focus on Keepers Registry
• JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
• Advancing the ISSN 2024 Strategy
Outline

3. The ISSN Network in 2021
• 93 ISSN National
Centres & Member
States
• 1 ISSN International
Centre in Paris
• Intergovernmental
organisation founded
by a Treaty between
France and UNESCO
(1975)

4. The ISSN Standard
• Adjusting to the « digital normal »!
• ISO: 6th version of ISO 3297
published in October 2020
• MARC21 Advisory Committee: 2
proposals made by ISSN IC and ISSN
USA were accepted in January 2021;
more proposals to come!
• IFLA : ISSN IC represented in 7
sections and interest groups
including the ISBD for
Manifestation Task Force to
address the alignment of the ISBD
to the IFLA LRM at the
Manifestation level (draft to be
submitted at WLIC 2021)
• EURIG: meetings to discuss the
novelties in RDA toolkit
• NISO: ISSN IC participates in NISO
Transfer WG and Transfer code of
practice to be reviewed shortly

5. The ISSN Standard
• eISSN to be used systematically
• Expansion of resource types eligible
for ISSN assignment
• Assignment of an ISSN does not
imply that the content of the
resource is validated by the ISSN
Network
• Cluster ISSN concept to encompass
more options
• Machine legibility of the ISSN and
inclusion in current data formats for
machine-to-machine interactions
• Canonical syntax of the ISSN URI is
https://issn.org/resource/ISSN/181
9-1819

6. A few ISSN Metrics
• A total of 2,175,883 confirmed entries
in the ISSN Register, out of which
295,075 online resources
• 54,642 new entries in 2020, out of
which 25,316 online resources
• 57 ISSN National Centres sent 202,473
new and updated records
• 3,330 ISSN assigned by ISSN-IC
• 4,246 publishers registered in the
ISSN Portal extranet, a figure that
tripled since January 2018

7. A few ISSN Metrics
• A global upward trend
in the identification of
continuing resources.
• Digital is on the rise
globally.
• Nigeria leads in Africa.
• Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
come next.

8. A few ISSN Metrics
• France leads in
Europe and
globally.
• USA, Canada
and UK follow.

9. A few ISSN Metrics
• Australia leads
in Asia and the
Pacific.
• Indonesia is
booming.
• Japan, India
and Korea
(Rep.) follow.

10. A few ISSN Metrics
• Brazil leads in
Latin America
and the
Caribbean.
• Argentina,
Colombia,
Mexico come
next.

11. A few ISSN Metrics
Number of records per country under ISSN IC Responsibility
• International
organisations are
the first target
group of ISSN IC .
• Followed by
publications from
South Africa,
Taiwan and
Ukraine.

12. ISSN Suite of Services: The ISSN Portal
• Where the story of a
continuing resource
begins!
• 1,070,000 ISSN records
indexed by Google, i.e.
50% of total records
• 118,700 ISSN added to
Wikidata
• 2,1 mio clicks (Aug.
2019 – Jan. 2021)
• 6,000 daily clicks
• 8,500 daily unique
visitors
• Increase in web traffic:
+36% hits, +25% pages
viewed in 2020
compared to 2019

13. ISSN Suite of Services: The Directory of Scholarly
Open Access Resources
• OA journals at the
forefront!
• 7,228 new entries in
2020
• 44,158 OA resources
identified, i.e. 6 times
more than in 2013, i.e.
15% of ISSN-identified
online resources
• 10,027 indexed in DOAJ
• 7,948 archived by
Keepers Registry
agencies
• Top 3 countries:
Indonesia, India, USA.

14. ISSN Suite of Services: Enhanced Transfer Alerting System
• Has this title changed
owner recently?
• Based on NISO Transfer
Code of Practice
• 1,782 titles transferred
since 2010
• 86 active Transfer
publishers registered
• Top 3 receiving
publishers: SAGE, Taylor
& Francis, Wiley
• Top 3 transfering
publishers: Wiley,
Libertas Academica, self-
published

15. ISSN Suite of Services: Keepers Registry
• Is this digital title archived somewhere?
• Our partners:
• Archaeology Data Service, UK,
• British Library (until 2019), UK
• Cariniana Network, Brazil
• CLOCKSS Archive, USA
• Global LOCKSS Network, USA
• HathiTrust, USA
• Library of Congress, USA
• National Digital Preservation Program, China,
• National Library of the Netherlands
• PKP Preservation Network, Canada
• Portico, USA
• Scholars Portal, Canada
• Swiss National Library (until 2020)
• More partners to join soon:
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Merritt Repository, Uni. Of California
• Internet Archive

16. Focus on Keepers Registry
• A global monitor on the archiving
arrangements for continuing
resources including e-serials
• Which Keepers are committed to
preserve this content?
• How, and with what terms of
access?
• Which e-journals are still “at risk of
loss”and should be archived?

17. Focus on Keepers Registry
• Library review
• 1758-793X
• Ceased (1927-2017)
• Archived by 6 Keepers

18. Focus on Keepers Registry
• A wealth of statistics!
• 52,258 titles archived
• 18,885 titles ‘kept safe’ by 3 or
more Keepers
• Number of archived resources per
archiving agency
• Resources under the stewardship of
one archiving agency only
• Resources archived per publisher
and per archiving agency
• Links to the ISSN Portal to select
and download metadata

19. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER

20. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
• Disturbing findings
• M. Laakso, M. Matthias, N. Jahn. Open is not
forever: A study of vanished open access
journals. Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology, Feb.
2021
• J. Bosman et al. OA Diamond Journals
Study. https://zenodo.org/record/4558704

21. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
• Planning for cooperative
preservation
• Non-APC journals registered
with DOAJ that do not have
a preservation policy, i.e.
7,000 titles
• Three archiving options at
hand:
• PKP Private Network
based on LOCKSS
• CLOCKSS Dark Archive
• Internet Archive

22. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
Titles using Open Journal Systems, the
open source publishing tool developed
and distributed freely by PKP
PKP PN

23. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
Titles registered in DOAJ and providing
content associated with detailed metadata
CLOCKSS

24. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
Titles registered in DOAJ and NOT providing
content associated with detailed metadata
INTERNET ARCHIVE

25. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
Reporting about the archiving process
Keepers Registry

26. JASPER - JournAlS PrEserved forevER
• Next steps
• Survey of DOAJ-registerd non-
APC titles
• Improving OJS archiving plugin
• Communication and training of
editors using OJS
• Building a transfer application
between DOAJ and CLOCKSS
via Internet Archive
• Reporting in Keepers Registry
• Designing a Minimum Viable
Product
• Applying for grants to involve
more journals and more
archiving agencies

27. • A more inclusive ISSN Network which is
expanding
• Better international outreach and
enhanced communication
• ISSN as the cornerstone of a suite of
services delivering quality global data
re serial publications
• More diverse partnerships
• 6th version of ISO 3297 published

28. • Promote and develop Keepers Registry
to partner with new agencies and
increase the number of resources
archived
• Interoperability with ISNIs
• Expansion of the ISSN Network
• Implement Cluster ISSNs
• Add new types of ressources identified
with ISSN
• Management of PIDs in the ISSN Portal
• Promote the ISSN Portal within the
ISSN Network