Chris and all--

NSDP (the National Serials Data Program which is the U.S. ISSN center at
the Library of Congress) is responsible for notifying U.S. publishers that
they are printing incorrect ISSN.  Those noticing incorrect ISSN on
U.S. serials can notify NSDP of such problems by sending email to our
NSDP account:  issn@loc.gov

Please include in the email a citation to the most recent issue on which
the ISSN is misprinted so that if the publisher has already corrected the
ISSN on a later issue, he is not confused by our request for a correction.

For the title above, NSDP did notify the publisher, via the U.S. Postal
Service, about the incorrect ISSN.  NSDP cooperates with the Postal
Service in assigning ISSN to many serials mailed at periodicals
rate.  Sometimes working with a third party (USPS), though overall very
beneficial, results in miscommunications with the publisher. In this case,
NSDP will notify the publisher directly and hope that the ISSN error will
be corrected as soon as possible.

Thank you for noticing this and please feel free to direct future cases of
incorrect ISSN being printed by the publisher directly to NSDP.

Regina

Regina  R. Reynolds                     email: rrey@loc.gov
Head, National Serials Data Program     voice: (202) 707-6379
Library of Congress                     fax    (202) 707-6333
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.           ISSN Web page: lcweb.loc.gov/issn/
Washington, D.C. 20540-4160

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Chris Blackman wrote:

> On updating my local print record for this title I was surprised to see
> that the journal, which started this new title in 2000, is still using
> the ISSN for the previous title "Critical Studies in Mass
> Communication."  I couldn't find the correct new ISSN anywhere, either
> on the print issue or on the journal information Web page.  This leads
> me to wonder a what the procedures are for notifying a publisher that
> they should be using a new ISSN.  Can anyone at the ISSN center or a
> CONSER library elaborate on this?
>
> This is the longest period of time that I have ever noticed a journal
> continue to use the old ISSN.  I was always a little bothered by the lag
> time because of the confusion with citations, but usually publishers
> caught up within an issue or two.  However, now with the prevalence of
> electronic indexes and abstracts (which generally rely on the print ISSN
> rather than the e-ISSN), MARC record services, and article linkers, this
> kind of mistake has caused us to effectively lose access to 5 years of
> information.
>
> ISSNs should be (from CONSER records validated by NSDP):
>
> Critical Studies in Media Communication, ISSN 1529-5036 (print)
> Critical Studies in Mass Communication, ISSN 0739-3180 (print)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Christine W. Blackman
> Catalog Librarian
> Williams College Libraries
> Williamstown, MA  01267
> 413-597-4403
> cblackma@williams.edu
>

Regina 	R. Reynolds                     email: rrey@loc.gov
Head, National Serials Data Program     voice: (202) 707-6379
Library of Congress                     fax    (202) 707-6333
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.           ISSN Web page: lcweb.loc.gov/issn/
Washington, D.C. 20540-4160