1. Using the Transfer Alerting Service (TAS)
September 2021

2. How to report a transfer when
you are the receiving publisher
Using TAS - ISSN International Centre

3. Registration on TAS
Publishers first need to officially endorse the NISO Transfer Code of Practice
(Contact the Transfer Standing Committee Co-Chairs here: https://www.niso.org/standards-
committees/transfer/about-transfer).
Then they are registered for free by the ISSN International Centre which gets
information from NISO. Publishers receive their credentials to access their
account on https://portal.issn.org.
They can log on to the ISSN Publishers’ Extranet and report title transfers
following the procedure described in the following slides.
Note: this Extranet is also designed to assign ISSN to new publications. This service is offered to
publishers in countries which do not have an ISSN National Centre, or which have a specific
agreement with the ISSN International Centre.
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4. Using the Electronic Transfer Alerting Service - ISSN International Centre
To report a transfer, go to
https://portal.issn.org

5. Log on to the Extranet using
the credentials provided by
the ISSN International Centre

6. Your account
(“home”
button) looks
like this.

7. Note: services in grey are not available, e.g. “request a new
ISSN” or “purchase ISSN credits” when the publisher is not
entitled to request ISSNs from the ISSN International Centre.
On your account, you can:
Search the Portal (only free data is available if you are
not a subscriber)
Find here the number of transfers you have reported
Discuss with a librarian @the ISSN International Centre
Report a new transfer

8. Overview of transfer requests
Request ID (click to
see the original
request form)
Request type
(“claim” = transfer
request)
ISSN of the title (click
to access the record in
the ISSN Portal)
Check
request
status

9. To report a transfer,
click on “claiming a
resource”

10. ISSN Governing Board - 2020/04/28/ ISSN + status report
Search the title in the ISSN
Portal. You may search:
- In all fields
- By title
- By ISSN

11. When the relevant record is
displayed, click on “declare a
transfer” to open the transfer form.

12. Fill in the form
Mandatory fields are marked with an *

13. Specify if the other medium versions
are also transferred (selected by
default)
Provide information about the
transferring publisher (institutional
name, contact name, contact email)
Providing the former and new URL of
the publication is mandatory, as well
as the expected transfer date

14. You may provide here supporting
documents such as the URL of the
title or a URL providing information
about the transfer; or a scan of the
journal title page bearing the name
of the receiving publisher
Click on “send request” to send it to
the ISSN International Centre for
validation

15. What happens next
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16. Request Workflow
The “pending” request is processed by the ISSN International Centre that
checks its completeness.
If the request is complete, the request status is set to “provisional” after
its validation. If the request is not complete, the request status is set to
“incomplete”. The request can also be rejected.
➢ Note: see next slide for more information about statuses.
The receiving publisher is informed that its request has been validated
via email. The same information can be found in the publisher’s account.
The transferring publisher is also informed via email.
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17. The different statuses allow you to follow the outcome of your requests:
• Pending: the request is waiting for validation by the ISSN International Centre,
• Provisional: the transfer information is validated; however the transfer is not
effective yet;
• Processed: the effective transfer has been checked and recorded by the ISSN
Network.
Error statuses are:
• Incomplete: information is missing; you should complete your request form,
• Rejected: the request is not validated. Please contact the ISSN International Centre
for more information using the “contact a cataloguer” button in your dashboard.
Request Statuses
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18. Using ETAS - ISSN International Centre
Contact the ISSN International Centre
to know why your request was rejected
by clicking on “ Contact a cataloguer”

19. Using the Electronic Transfer Alerting Service - ISSN International Centre
Information about all
valid transfers is publicly
available on TAS
(journaltransfer.issn.org)

20. Using the Electronic Transfer Alerting Service - ISSN International Centre
It is also available to
subscribers on the ISSN
Portal. The record is tagged
with the Transfer logo.
The name of the receiving publisher
and the expected transfer date are
indicated.

21. Contact: transfer@issn.org
Website: https://portal.issn.org
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