PROCEDURES IN ISSN APPLICATION AND MAINTENANCE

• Request for information brochure on the ISSN. For Metro Manila serial publishers, secure it personally from the Bibliographic Services Division (BSD) of The National Library (TNL). Serial publishers in the regions can write to:
  
  
  The ISSN National Center
  Bibliographic Services Division
  The National Library
  T.M. Kalaw St.
  Ermita, Manila 1000
  
  
  Relay requests for information also by phone (524-10-11) or fax (524-10-11)
  
  
• In actual registration, bring two (2) copies of said publication's maiden issue (Vol. 1, No. 1). If you have already produced past issues, you must bring two copies of the next issue of the serial publication. For non-Metro Manila serial publishers, send by mail the publication's cover and title page, including the masthead, or the galleyproofs.
  
  
• Secure from the BSD two copies of the Information Sheet (information on the publisher and serial title).
  
  
• Fill up the forms. Leave with the BSD one copy and keep the other for you own file.
  
  
• Submit to a brief interview by designated BSD staff. The interview focuses on the publisher's address, telephone number and contact person; publisher's address, telephone number and contact person; publisher's inputs; and area of specialization.
  
  Take note that the ISSN issued by the BSD is done after:
  
  
  • Verification against the Philippine Serials registered in the International Serials Data System : covering the period April 1977-April 1988 / by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) if you have already been issued an earlier ISSN
    
    
  • Evaluation by the BSD staff on whether the serial publication contains violence themes or is violence-oriented
  
  
• Take note that the ISSN always consists of 8 digits, divided into two parts:
  
  
  • unique title number (the first seven digits) and
    
    
  • check digit (last digit which is computer-generated). Be reminded that the ISSN is assigned to only one serial title and cannot be changed unless there is a change in the title. The ISSN assigned to the serial title of a monographic series remains the same for all the parts or individual volumes of the serial. The ISSN is closely linked with the serial title such that when the publication of the serial ceases, its ISSN must never be reused.
  
  
• Print the ISSN on the serial publication's top right hand corner of the front cover preceded always by the letters ISSN. The ISSN also appears on all issues of a serial and on all descriptive and promotional literature regarding said serial. If the ISBN is also applicable, usually for monographic series, the ISBN and ISSN appear together.