Colleagues,
(Please excuse the cross-posting)

 I thought you may be interested in the latest from NISO regarding the
revision of ISSN's. This is a quote from the Crossref.org newsletter which
can be accessed here: http://www.crossref.org/01company/10newsletter.html

NISO News:
"ISSN Revision Committee - the Committee met in October in Washington,
DC and reviewed a number of areas. A key question was whether the ISSN
would address the issue of identifying serials at the title level (i.e.
one ISSN assigned to a title to collocate the manifestation/version
ISSN) and the issue of product-level identification. The current plan is
that the ISSN standard itself will not identify serials at the title or
product level but the ISSN will remain a bibliographic identifier with
different versions of serials (e.g. print and online) getting separate
ISSN. However, an appendix to the ISSN standard will address the issue
of title identification and how ISSN can work together with DOI, URI/URN
and other standards. This could involve a "title" ISSN number being
created which could be used as the DOI suffix to identify a serial
(journal) title. In addition, the ISSN International Centre in Paris
will work on an improved ISSN lookup service for the central ISSN
Registry to make it more accessible. The current schedule is for a draft
of the revised standard to be finished in September 2005."

Sue Marshall
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