-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Modern medicine ISSN 0026-8070? -- Regina Reynolds
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:29:56 +0200
From: Jan Lahmeyer <J.Lahmeyer@library.uu.nl>
Reply-To: J.Lahmeyer@library.uu.nl

Reaction to Regina via Serialst

Well - thank you, Regina, for your answer. Of course I saw the
origin (just here above) of the ISSN Centre USA. From ISSN online
one person could e-mail to the centre in question. That would have
been issn@loc.gov.us in this case - so it would have landed on
your desk anyhow ... anyway I suppose so ...

And thanks for your promise to solve this particular "problem".

We in the serials cataloguing field are always concerned to make
the best descriptions for our users (that is public and staff users).
The rules for description are already difficult enough to explain all
those remarkable things to them.

Hopefully the new set of harmonized rules (AACR, ISBD and ISSN)
will make some things easier, although publishers will still make
our brows frown ...

Jan
> -------- 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
> >
<snip>

> > ===
> > 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)
> > ============

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