History and experience of ISSN national centers in Latin America

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the ISSN national centers in Latin America, the region of the Americas where mostly Latin derived languages are spoken, especially Spanish and Portuguese. The ISSN presence in the region is low. Only ten out of twenty countries have national centers. Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru resort to the international center to request support on obtaining the code. Of the countries which have a national center, five of them are in national libraries: Colombia, in the National Library of Colombia; Costa Rica, in the National Library of Costa Rica (La Biblioteca Nacional Miguel Obregón Lizano); Dominican Republic, in the Central Library of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University; Uruguay, in the National Library of Uruguay and Venezuela, in the National Library of Venezuela. The others are in public institutions connected to Science, Technology and Education like Argentina, in the Argentine Center of Scientific and Technological Information (CAICYT); Brazil, in the Brazilian Science and Technology Information Institute IBICT); Chile, in the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT); Ecuador, in the Board of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation and Mexico, in the National Institute of Copyright.