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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 55 | February 2002


Kinetica Scores Serial Data

The National Library of Australia manages the Australian International Standard Serial Numbering Agency, which is responsible for the allocation of International Standard Serial numbers (ISSNs), and the registration of these numbers with the ISSN International Centre in Paris once the serials have been published.

To date, this process has been managed as part of the Library's internal library management system. However, from 26 November the Library began recording these details on Kinetica. This will benefit all Kinetica users by providing access to prepublication details for new serials that have been allocated an ISSN.

Prepublication records are now entered onto Kinetica as soon as the publisher requests an ISSN for a new title. These records include the following fields:
Verification Level of 'Under construction'
Leader-encoding level of 8 for prepublication/CIP record
022 tag-ISSN (blank indicators)
037 tag-contact address/phone number
222 tag-key title
245 tag-title statement
260 tag-imprint
300 tag-v. to indicate ongoing serial
362 tag-date of publication/designation
500 tag-a note 'ISSN prepublication record'
110/710 tag-corporate name main or added entry if appropriate Examples on Kinetica are AN 23198053, AN 23197873.

The Library encourages any Kinetica users who receive a copy of the serial before the Library receives its copy to upgrade these prepublication records.

When items that have been allocated an ISSN are published, the Library registers them with the ISSN International Centre in Paris. If a serial changes title, then a corrected record is sent to the ISSN Centre.

These details will now also be recorded on Kinetica records using the following tags:
Leader-for amended records, status changed to corrected record
022 tag-first indicator changed to either 0 or 1 to denote full or brief registration
024 tag-first indicator 8-a code to indicate the reporting month for the ISSN registration/correction, e.g. ISSN/DEC2001. This code will be used to extract monthly files of records for export to the ISSN International Centre
210 tag-abbreviated key title, for full registrations only 583 tag-used to record the date of ISSN registration and date of any subsequent corrections to the ISSN record
Examples are AN 6719852, AN 23048353.

We would appreciate the cooperation of other Kinetica users in not deleting or changing any of these tags.

If you have any questions, please contact Julie Whiting by email on jwhiting@nla.gov.au or by phone (02) 6262 1157.
—Julie Whiting

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