Ulrich's is a global and authoritative serials search and discovery tool used extensively by academic library staff, faculty and students, staff and patrons in public and special libraries, publishers, corporations, and researchers worldwide.
Learn how your journal, magazine, newspaper, or other serial publication can be included in Ulrich's and bring attention to your periodicals!
Types of Serials included in Ulrich's
A serial is a publication issued over a period of time, usually on a regular basis (such as weekly or monthly), with enumeration used to identify issues (e.g., volumes, issue numbers, dates). Serials, unlike other multi-volume publications, are intended to be published indefinitely with no pre-determined end date. Monographic series or book series that bear a collective title also qualify as serials.
Regardless of the publication medium, serials remain the key tools for scholarship and the primary source of current information and topical news in all fields of endeavor. While aiming for maximum title coverage, Ulrich's has established certain criteria for inclusion. Ulrich's covers publications that meet the definition of a serial except administrative publications of governmental agencies below state level that can be easily found elsewhere. A limited selection of membership directories, comic books, and puzzle and game books is also included.
If you have a question as to whether your publication is eligible for listing in Ulrich's, please contact the Ulrich's Editorial team at ulrichs@proquest.com.
Getting an ISSN for your publication
Although an ISSN is not required for a title to be included in Ulrich's, it is strongly recommended that every eligible serial should have an ISSN.
Why is an ISSN important for my publication?
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an internationally accepted, concise, and unambiguous code for the identification of unique serial titles. One ISSN represents one serial title. The ISSN is multifunctional and is used as a component of bar codes, as a tool for the communication of basic information about a serial title, and for such processes as bibliographic control, ordering, billing, inventory control, abstracting and indexing, acquisitions, shelving, binding, cooperative cataloguing, circulation, and interlibrary loan. According to the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress (ISSN agency in the US), the ISSN:
- provides a useful and economical method of communication between publishers and suppliers, making trade distribution systems faster and more efficient.
- results in accurate citing of serials by scholars, researchers, abstracters, and librarians.
- is suitable for computer use in fulfilling the need for file update and linkage, retrieval, and transmittal of data.
- is used in libraries for identifying titles, ordering and checking in, and claiming serials.
- simplifies interlibrary loan systems and union catalog reporting and listing.
- is used by the U.S. Postal Service to regulate certain publications mailed at second-class and controlled circulation rates.
- is an integral component of the journal article citation used to monitor payments to the Copyright Clearance Center Inc.
How to get an ISSN for your publication
The ISSN is FREE and publishers may obtain ISSNs by applying to the appropriate national ISSN-assigning body in their region. Contact the ISSN International Centre for more information, at: ISSN International Centre, 20 rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, FRANCE, Tel: +33-1-44-88-22-20; Fax: +33-1-40-26-32-43; E-mail: issnic@issn.org; URL: http://www.issn.org.
Listing & Updating Titles in Ulrich's
There is NO CHARGE for a listing in Ulrich's. All listings are FREE. Participation and cooperation by publishers is encouraged in order to ensure Ulrich's provides its users with the most accurate and comprehensive serials information possible.
How do I get my publication(s) listed in Ulrich's?
There are numerous ways to communicate with us about listing your title(s) in Ulrich's. The fastest way is to use our print-ready form (PDF), which you may fax or mail to our Editorial Office. Or, you may use the Microsoft Word version of the form. You may save the form to your PC, fill it in, and email it to our Editorial Office at ulrichs@proquest.com. Instructions and all other contact information are on the forms.
We welcome sample copies, press releases, and/or announcements being sent to us at any time throughout the year. Please put us on your mailing list.
How do I make changes or corrections to my title(s) in Ulrich's?
You may contact the Ulrich's Editorial team directly by email, by phone, or by completing the print-ready form (PDF) or the Microsoft Word-format form and returning it to our Editorial Office. Existing information can be generated on request, especially for publishers with many titles. Publishers are strongly encouraged to contact us to discuss setting up regular electronic transfers of data.
Contacting the Ulrich's Editorial Office
It's easy to contact us. Our team of editors is fluent in a wide range of languages and can assist you with your listings or answer your editorial questions.
In the US and Canada, please call the ULRICH'S HOTLINE toll-free at 1-800-346-6049. Outside the US and Canada, our telephone number is 908-219-0286. Our editorial fax number is 908-219-0182. Our editorial e-mail address is ulrichs@proquest.com.
The mailing address for the Ulrich's Editorial Office is:
Serials Editorial Department
ProQuest
630 Central Avenue
New Providence, NJ 07974
USA