Gaelle BEQUET
Gaëlle Béquet is the Director of the ISSN International Centre. Prior to this position, she has managed several academic libraries. She defended her PhD in information science in 2011 and she published a book about the development of digital libraries in Austria, France and the UK in 2014. She was Chair of ISO TC46 Information & Documentation 2014-2022.
Session
The ISSN International Centre recently launched a new portal offering enhanced services and tools for accessing and exploring the ISSN Register. This session will present these new functionalities and demonstrate how they improve discovery, navigation, and use of ISSN data for the community.
The presentation will also introduce ISSN-H, a new identifier defined in the revised ISO 3297:2022 standard. ISSN-H is designed to link serial publications that have undergone title changes and therefore received multiple ISSNs over time. By grouping these related resources under a single identifier, ISSN-H enables the identification of families of serial publications.
We will explain the principles guiding ISSN-H assignments and illustrate how this identifier can simplify identification and management of serials for libraries, publishers, and metadata users. The session will also situate ISSN-H within the broader persistent identifier (PID) ecosystem.