Re: E-ISSN?

:-) These are those times when a "neutral point of view" just doesn't 
say it all, does it?

Thanks, Laura, for your perspective. I'm not at the kitten killing level 
yet, but I, too, find e-issn to be an aberration -- it's the ISSN-L that 
makes me want to strangle.

kc

On 11/22/13 3:21 PM, LAURA DAWSON wrote:
> The book trade suffers from the occasional reference to eISBN. The ISBN agency tries very hard to stamp those out. I once gave a presentation for NISO called "Every Time You Say eISBN, a Kitten Bleeds."
>
> With that perspective, I hope the eISSN dies a mangled and horrible death.
>
>> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>

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