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International Standard Serial Number

(ISSN) Register Your’s Now For International Reconigition
The National Library of Jamaica assigns International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to serial publications which are published in Jamaica. If the journal is published within the Caribbean, then the application for an ISSN must be made to the ISSN International Centre in Paris, France.

For Jamaica: If the publication is Jamaican (i.e. published in Jamaica), kindly visit our website (www.nlj.gov.jm) and download and complete the application form and return same to us. Presently there is no fees attached.

Download the ISSN Application Form

By joining the ISSN Network, you offer your country’s newspapers, magazines and journals the possibility to be unambiguously known and visible internationally.

Whether they are scientific, literary, general information or leisure oriented, serial publications find considerable benefits in ISSN:

  • increased visibility,
  • facilitated sales, including abroad, and
  • increased recognition of the value of their contents.

The ISSN role is to identify a publication.

It is a digital code without any intrinsic meaning:

  • it does not include any information about the origin or contents of the publication,
  • it does not guarantee the quality or validity of the contents.

The ISSN is associated with the title of the publication. If the publication is modified significantly, a new ISSN must be assigned.

An ISSN can be assigned to all electronic resources: CD-Roms, DVDs, websites, etc. Depending on their types, these resources must meet specific criteria.

  • Electronic publications: online newspapers, CD-Roms, DVDs, etc.
  • “Ongoing integrating resources”: websites, databases, wikis, etc.
  • How should an ISSN be displayed on electronic publications?
  • Applying for an ISSN for an electronic publication

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