Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
It may depend on exactly what you need. The ISSN Centre offer licensed access to their ISSN portal at a cost http://www.issn.org - my experience is that this is pretty comprehensive The ISSN Centre also offer a download of ISSN-L tables - this is available for free (although you have to state

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-17 Thread Rosalyn Metz
This thread makes me nostalgic for the good old days when dchud still ran jake. https://web.archive.org/web/20060114022931/http://www.jake-db.org/ On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: It may depend on exactly what you need. The ISSN Centre offer licensed

[CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-16 Thread Stuart Yeates
My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat allows querying of their database by ISSN. Which method of sampling the ISSN namespace is going to cause least pain? http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/ seems to be the one talked about, but is there another that's less

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-16 Thread Roy Tennant
I would use this over a WorldCat.org search: http://xissn.worldcat.org/ but I am unaware of a data dump. Roy On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat allows querying of their