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Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:42:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Regina Reynolds
U.S. ISSN center home page
The National Serials Data Program is pleased to announce its home page on the World Wide Web: http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/.
The page features both a downloadable and an interactive ISSN application form. Initially, the interactive form will only be used for electronic publications. This is because online publications can most easily accommodate the requirement that the form be accompanied by a representation of the publication or an electronic address. Use of the form is limited to U.S. publishers since NSDP can assign ISSN only to serials published in the United States. However, the page also includes a link to the ISSN International Centre's Web site, a site which includes addresses of all centers in the ISSN Network and links to those centers with online sites.
The U.S. center's page also includes the text of NSDP's printed "ISSN is For Serials" brochure; a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list; special instructions about ISSN for electronic serials; information about AmIS, the American ISSN Friends group; and the text of the brochure, "What's in a Name?" developed by the Serials Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association. This brochure contains guidelines on the presentation of titles, title changes, numbering, bar coding, and other areas of interest to serial publishers. The page concludes with links to related resources for serial publishers.
NSDP staff are looking forward to publishers' use of the interactive application form because the form is linked to a conversion program which will enable a cataloger to convert the data supplied by the publisher into a preliminary catalog record, ready for editing and the addition of an ISSN and specialized data by the cataloger.
Regina Reynolds Head, National Serials Data Program Library of Congress rrey@loc.gov (202) 707-6379 (voice) (202) 707-6333 (fax) ```
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