-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Modern medicine mix-up with ISSN 0026-8070? -- Jan Lahmeyer
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:07:11 -0400
From: Regina Reynolds <rrey@LOC.GOV>

In reference to Jan Lahmeyer's concerns about the ISSN for Modern
medicine, I want to make clear that there is *no* policy of re-using
ISSN.
I will look into the circumstances of this particular situation and make
a
determination about what the correct ISSN should be.  The ISSN national
center in the country of publication is the authority for determining
correct ISSN for titles published in that country.  The ISSN
International
Centre in Paris is the final authority in cases of dispute or policy
conflicts.

This particular problem may have originated before the national ISSN
centers were fully established.  The group of numbers beginning "00"
dates
from the early 1970's when the titles in Ulrich's were given ISSN to
form
a critical mass with which to start the ISSN system.

I will look into this question and post an answer to the list.

Regina Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program
Library of Congress

> -------- 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
>
>  =====
>
>
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Regina  R. Reynolds                     email: rrey@loc.gov
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