ISSN International Centre 45, rue de Turbigo 75003 Paris France Fax: 33-(0) 1 40 26 32 43 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.issn.org - - 2 - - INTRODUCTION This edition of the ISSN Manual is an interim revision of the ISSN Manual. Cataloguing Part, published in 2009. It incorporates new rules and new criteria for ISSN assignment (in particular for electronic resources) adopted by the ISSN Network since 2010 and, for the first time, it is complemented by examples of ISSN records. The Working Group responsible for this revision includes the members indicated below. We would like to thank all the members for their active participation in the revision work, and all the ISSN representatives who have contributed to the drafting of this Manual. This ISSN Manual is published in online form only. The Manual will be updated again once the discussions about harmonization with the other bibliographic standards (RDA - Resource Description and Access - and ISBD - International Standardized Bibliographic Description) launched in 2011, are completed. Members of the ISSN Manual Revision Working Group Philippe Cantié ISSN France Louise Howlett ISSN United Kingdom François-Xavier Pelegrin ISSN International Regina Romano-Reynolds ISSN U.S.A Marja-Liisa Seppälä ISSN Finland Thank you very much to Joëlle Bellec, Bibliothèque nationale de France, for her very careful reading of the French version of the ISSN Manual. - - 3 - - 0. GENERAL ISSN ASSIGNMENT POLICIES .............................................................................. 12 0.1 Definitions ........................................................................................................................... 12 0.2 Scope of ISSN ....................................................................................................................... 13 0.3 Criteria for ISSN assignment ................................................................................................ 14 0.3.1 Serials ........................................................................................................................... 14 0.3.2 Ongoing integrating resources ..................................................................................... 14 0.3.2.1 Inclusion criteria .................................................................................................... 14 0.3.2.2 Exclusion criteria ................................................................................................... 15 0.4 Relationship between an ISSN, an ISSN-L, a key title and a continuing resource............... 15 0.5 Allocation and use of blocks of ISSN ................................................................................... 15 0.6 ISSN assignment and responsibility issues .......................................................................... 16 0.6.1 The place of publication as a criterion for determining the National Centre responsible for ISSN assignment ........................................................................................... 16 0.6.2 Assignment of ISSN to continuing resources issued by multinational publishers ....... 16 0.6.3 Assignment of ISSN to continuing resources published by international organizations ............................................................................................................................................... 17 0.6.4 Assignment of ISSN to digital reproductions of ceased print serials ........................... 17 0.6.5 Publications whose different medium versions are under the responsibility of different National Centres .................................................................................................... 18 0.6.6 Transfer of responsibility for ISSN records .................................................................. 18 0.7 ISSN registration .................................................................................................................. 19 0.7.1 Exhaustivity v.s. selectivity ........................................................................................... 19 0.7.2 Registration on request ................................................................................................ 19 0.7.3 Input to the ISSN Register ............................................................................................ 20 1. THE ISSN RECORD ............................................................................................................. 21 1.1 Content and functions ......................................................................................................... 21 1.2 Table of ISSN data elements ............................................................................................... 22 1.3 Punctuation ......................................................................................................................... 25 1.3.1 Punctuation of the key title .......................................................................................... 25 1.3.2 Punctuation of titles proper ......................................................................................... 26 1.3.3 Punctuation of variant titles ......................................................................................... 26 1.3.4 Punctuation of the abbreviated key title ..................................................................... 27 1.3.5 Punctuation of the publishing information .................................................................. 27 1.3.6 Punctuation of linking entries ...................................................................................... 27 1.4 Language, script and capitalization of ISSN records ........................................................... 28 1.5 Abbreviations and misprints ............................................................................................... 28 1.6 Sources of information ........................................................................................................ 29 1.6.1 Basis of the ISSN registration ....................................................................................... 29 1.6.2 Prescribed sources of information ............................................................................... 29 2. ISSN ................................................................................................................................. 31 2.1 Construction of ISSN ............................................................................................................ 31 2.2 General rules for ISSN assignment ...................................................................................... 32 2.2.1 Continuing resources published in different language editions .................................. 32 2.2.2 Continuing resources published in different geographic editions ............................... 32 - - 4 - - 2.2.3 Continuing resources published in different media..................................................... 33 2.2.4 Other editions .............................................................................................................. 33 2.2.5 Cumulations ................................................................................................................. 33 2.2.6 Reproductions and reprints ......................................................................................... 34 2.2.7 Loose-leafs .................................................................................................................... 34 2.2.8 Mergers and splits ........................................................................................................ 35 2.2.8.1 Mergers ................................................................................................................. 35 2.2.8.2 Splits ...................................................................................................................... 35 2.2.9 Sections, supplements, insets and sub-series .............................................................. 35 2.2.10 Resumption of titles ................................................................................................... 36 2.3 Changes in continuing resources requiring a new ISSN assignment .................................. 37 2.3.1 Major changes in title proper of continuing resources ............................................... 37 2.3.2 Other major changes to continuing resources............................................................. 38 2.4 Changes in continuing resources not requiring a new ISSN assignment ............................ 40 2.4.1 Minor changes in title proper of continuing resources ............................................... 40 2.4.2 Other minor changes .................................................................................................... 44 2.5 Cancellation of an ISSN and deletion of an ISSN record ..................................................... 44 2.5.1 Cancelling an ISSN assignment ..................................................................................... 44 2.5.2 Deleting an ISSN record ................................................................................................ 45 2.6 Display of ISSN on continuing resource issues or iterations ............................................... 46 2.6.1 Display of ISSN on printed continuing resource issues ............................................... 46 2.6.2 Display of ISSN on non-printed continuing resources issues ....................................... 47 2.7 Representation