BS ISO 3297:2017 defines and promotes the use of a standard code (ISSN) for the unique identification of serials and other continuing resources.

Each International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique identifier for a specific serial or other continuing resource in a defined medium. This document also describes a mechanism, the "linking ISSN (ISSN-L)", that provides for collocation or linking among the different media versions of the same continuing resource.

ISSN are applicable to serials and to other continuing resources, whether past, present or to be published or produced in the foreseeable future, whatever the medium of publication or production. Individual monographs, sound and video recordings, printed music publications, audiovisual works and musical works have their own numbering systems and are not specifically mentioned in this document. Such items may carry an ISSN in addition to their own standard numbers when they are part of a continuing resource.


Cross References:
ANSI/NISO Z39. 56-1996
IETF. RFC 1737
IETF. RFC 2141
Z39. 84?2005
ANSI/NISO Z39. 88-2004
IETF. RFC 3044
ISO 259-2:1994
ISO 7098:1991
ISO 4:1997 (R09)
ISO 843:1997 (R10)
ISO 639-2:1998 (R10)
ISO 9:1995
ISO 2108:2005
ISO 2709:1996
ISO 3602:1989
ISO 3166-1:2013 ED3
ISO/TR 21449:2004 Ed 1
ISO 233-2:1993


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