Modern medicine mix-up with ISSN 0026-8070? -- Jan Lahmeyer Stephen D. Clark 02 Aug 2000 12:11 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Modern medicine mix-up with ISSN 0026-8070? Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:34:23 +0200 From: Jan Lahmeyer <J.Lahmeyer@library.uu.nl> Reply-To: J.Lahmeyer@library.uu.nl Dear Serialsters, According to information recieved from EBSCO the journal "Modern medicine" ceased publication after March 2000. This should be the journal started its publication in 1932. Some bibliographic descriptions of this journal use ISSN 0026-8070. When I search in ISSN online on "Modern medicine" I didn't find the correct publication, because this ISSN 0026-8070 is now used for another publication. When you click on the related titles in ISSN online after 1921 you don't retreive any title that is the current publication entitled "Modern medicine" again! My question is: what is the authority and power of the national ISSN Centres when they use a long existing ISSN (which was still printed in the recently ceased journal itself) for another journal which has been published no more since 1921? After cataloguing serials since 1972 I'm very much disappointed in this policy of re-using current ISSN's. Who is in charge of all this and who gives the solution to this mix-up? Following are results of some searches today. === 1) presentation (shortened by me) in ISSN Online (Aug. 2, 2000) There are 968454 records in the database ISSN Online Home Page ISSN: 0026-8070 Key title: Modern medicine (Chicago, Ill.) Title proper: Modern medicine Place of publication: Chicago, Ill. Publisher: Modern Hospital Pub. Co. Continues: Interstate medical journal ISSN = 1047-3491 Continued by: Nation's health (Chicago, Ill.) ISSN = 1076-0709 Status: Title no longer being published (D) Start date: 1919 End date: 1921 Frequency: Monthly (M) ISSN Centre: United States Of America (1) ============ 2) presentation (shortened by me) in LC catalog online (Aug. 2, 2000) Database Name: Library of Congress Online Catalog YOU SEARCHED: Guided Keyword = (modern)[in Title: All (KTIL)] AND (medicine)[in Title: All (KTIL)] SEARCH RESULTS: Displaying 45 of 373 records Modern medicine. LC Control Number: 46032450 Type of Material: Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.) Brief Description: Modern medicine. [New York, etc., Modern Medicine Publications, etc.] v. ill., diagrs. 21-23 cm. v. 1- Oct. 1932- ISSN: 0026-8070 ==== 3) presentation (shortened by me) in the British Library (Aug. 2, 2000) ISSN: 00268070 DSC Shelfmark: 5889.810000 Title: MODERN MEDICINE (MINNEAPOLIS) DSC: Vol. 18, 1950- 68(3), 2000 *A=1 Held but not currently received ===== 4) presentation (shortened by me) in the German "ZeitschriftenDatenBank" - ZDB - (Aug. 2, 2000) [ Database: Zeitschriftendatenbank | Search Query: ( ft: Modern) AND ( ft: medicine ) AND ( ss: 0026-8070 ) | Limits: None | Results: 1 items ] Nr. 1 JT - Modern medicine ST - the journal of medical progress PP - Minneapolis, Minn. PB - 1932 PD - 1.1932 - SS - 0026-8070 CY - us ===== * Jan J. Lahmeyer - EML: seriecat@library.uu.nl * Unit Serial Publications - Cataloguing Section - Dept. Cataloguing & Technical Services - Central Library Service * UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UTRECHT - P.O. Box 16007 , NL - 3500 DA UTRECHT * Voice Phone +31 (0)302536573 - Fax +31 (0)302539292 * For historical population statistics see: www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/populframe.html * Visit the website of the WESP: http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/