Re: E-ISSN?

KC et al.:

I suspect that in this time of turmoil, the 'perfect' identifier is even
more of a holy grail than it used to be. Given that we're not yet at the
point where best choices can be made (much less enforced), I'd be inclined
to add any identifier I could find that seems relevant, and let the future
sort them out. It's hard to know looking ahead what we'll end up doing, but
I suspect none of our crystal balls are very useful at the moment.

Diane




On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> :-) 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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