[Yulcat-l] FW: New project from the ISSN International Centre and UNESCO will result in new 856 $x coding

[Arakawa, Steven]

New codes for open access resources in 856. Assignment of the codes appears to be limited to the ISSN center & Unesco, but FYI. Eventually might be helpful for libraries in deciding whether to include in the catalog.

Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metada Services
Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203) 432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu<mailto:steven.arakawa at yale.edu>



From: CONSER Cataloging Discussion List [mailto:CONSRLST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Regina
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 10:45 AM
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Subject: New project from the ISSN International Centre and UNESCO will result in new 856 $x coding

Dear colleagues,

I am very pleased to be able to share some information with you about an exciting project to be launched in early December by the ISSN International Centre and UNESCO.  In conjunction with this project, the U.S. ISSN Center has begun adding the codes described below to field 856 $x (non-public note) in order to designate titles to be included in the project.  The U.S. ISSN Center has also begun to selectively identify some institutional repositories of scholarly articles and assign ISSN to them for inclusion in this project. Following is a short description of the project supplied to me by the ISSN International Centre.  I will be giving a presentation at the LC booth during ALA Midwinter about this project.  I will provide the presentation times once they are scheduled.

The ISSN International Centre and UNESCO will launch a beta version of a portal devoted to scholarly open access resources in December.  This portal will provide free access to those ISSN records which describe scholarly resources published as Open Access worldwide, whether they are journals, academic institutional repositories of articles,  or conference proceedings.

In order to designate resources to be included in this project,  ISSN National Centres are requested to identify, among the publications to which they assign an ISSN, those which are scholarly Open Access.

This identification is made by the addition of a code in field 856 subfield $x of records representing new ISSN assignments:

OA-J --for journals
OA-R --for academic institutional repositories of articles
OA-C-- for conference proceedings

Please feel free to contact me with any questions about U.S. ISSN Center participation in this project.

Regina

Regina Romano Reynolds
Head, ISSN Section
Director, U.S. ISSN Center
U.S. Programs, Literature and Law Division
Library of Congress
(202) 707-6379 (voice)
(202) 707-0973 (fax)
rrey at loc.gov<mailto:rrey at loc.gov>



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