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Subject: Re: "The Pink Sheet" - New ISSN,but is it a title change? --
LeChi Gallagher
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:29:38 -0500
From: Regina Reynolds <rrey@LOC.GOV>

LeChi and others--

NSDP is aware of the ISSN problems and record linking problems with this
title and are working to resolve them.  If you encounter ISSN problems,
please feel free to communicate with us about them.

Regina Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program
Library of Congress
ISSN email address:  issn@loc.gov

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Subject: Re: "The Pink Sheet" - New ISSN,but is it a title change? --
LeChi Gallagher
Date:  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:32:15 -0500
From: "Sottile, Patricia" <psottile@STEPTOE.COM>

LeChi,
Sorry my answer wasn't more clear.  Issues before Feb. 23, 1998 were
titled: "F-D-C reports. Prescription
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology."  The Feb. 23, 1998 issue changed the
title to "The pink sheet:
prescription pharmaceuticals and biotechnology."  It apparently carried
the old ISSN number until Jan. 8, 2001
when it changed to 1530-6240 (the Jan. 2, 2001 issue still has the old
ISSN).  I don't know why it took so long
for the ISSN to change, but that's what appears to have happened.

I have submitted error corrections to OCLC to correct the 008 field
dates, and update the 260 and 362 fields
with final volume information/correct dates and to correct the 785 field
on record #27695743; and to add the
new ISSN to the 020 field on record #49262806.

The close-out date for bib record #27694743 should read 1998, not 2000,
with 785 cross reference to the bib
record for the continuation title.  Over the years, the caption design
of the pink sheet has changed several
times, often giving it a new/different look; but the actual title change
appears to have taken place in February
of 1998.

PJ

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: "The Pink Sheet" - New ISSN, but is it a title change?
> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:32:47 -0500
> From: LeChi Gallagher <LGallagh@BNA.COM>
>
>
> Greetings---
>
> I found OCLC#27695743 for the following title :   "F-D-C
> reports. Prescription pharmaceuticals and biotechnology,"
> with 246 title: "Pink sheet." DtSt: d.  Dates: 1993,2000.
> ISSN 1068-5324.   785 tag indicates that it's continued by
> "Pink Sheet," ISSN 1530-6240.  I could NOT find an oclc
> record for this ISSN.
>
> I have in hand a copy of "The Pink Sheet": Prescription
> Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology," Vol . 64, No. 12 (March
> 25, 2002).   At head of title in smaller print:  "F-D-C
> Reports---"  The caption title in this issue seems to match
> the 245 tag in the above oclc#.  Masthead title, however is:
> "The Pink Sheet."   The ISSN in the masthead is 1530-6240.
>
> Since I don't have access to the old issues, I wonder is
> there was actually a title change.  Seems to me the
> publisher (F-D-C Reports, Inc.) wished to change the title,
> applied for a new ISSN and somehow decided not to change it?
> If that is the case, can someone please confirm this?
> Thanks for your help.
>
> LeChi Gallagher
> BNA Library
> lgallagh@bna.com
>

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