E-ISSN?

One of the examples I added includes the E-ISSN. I have mixed feelings 
about this, but I suspect it is quite common in metadata. (It seems to 
me that it should be an ISSN attached to an electronic publication, not 
a different kind of ISSN... oh well.) There is also the ISSN-L, which 
fortunately does not seem to be referred to much, so I hope we can 
ignore it.

If you haven't run into ISSN-L, it is the ISSN of the print copy, and is 
presumably used to gather the various formats (E, print, whatever) 
together. The "L" stands for "linking." From the ISSN agency page:

ISSN-L 0264-2875
             Printed version: Dance research = ISSN 0264-2875
             Online version: Dance research (Online) = ISSN 1750-0095

If you know of a growing use of these, please speak up. I haven't run 
into them, but I'm not watching any serials databases carefully. Also, 
if E-ISSNs are falling out of use, then we can skip those. Anyone?

kc
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