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<http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/doc/subscribe.htm>

Did have "higher usage per request" for the options under "OCLC Cataloging
Members" but now it has been added to "Free service with registration."
There is also now a link there to the correct email address to request such
an exception. Thanks for pointing this out,
Roy


On 6/15/09 6/15/09 • 1:15 PM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Does the xISSN documentation say that exceptions by non-OCLC members can
> be asked for, and instruct on where to make the request?  If you want to
> keep from discouraging use accidentally by people who don't know they
> can get an exception, it needs to say that on the same page that talks
> about the 100/day limit, not just on the code4lib listserv.
> 
> Roy Tennant wrote:
>> It is worth following up on Xiaoming's statement of a limit of 100 uses per
>> day of the xISSN service with the information that exceptions to this limite
>> are certainly granted. Annette probably knows that just such an exception
>> was granted to her LibX project, and LibX remains the single largest user of
>> this service. 
>> Roy
>> 
>> On 6/13/09 4:02 PM, "Xiaoming Liu" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> Annette's comment is correct. XISSN service allows 100 uses per day for
>>> non-OCLC usage. I don't think xISSN's price proposal is ever approved, so we
>>> don't have a price list for commercial usage.
>>> 
>>> XISSN's access control is sort of complex, for more details please check
>>> http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/doc/subscribe.htm , hopefully we can
>>> clean it up in the future.
>>> 
>>> xiaoming
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/13/09 3:52 PM, "Hamparian,Don" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     
>>>> You can also purchase. I thought it was 500 usages a day. Xiaoming?
>>>> 
>>>>       
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Tennant,Roy
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:02 PM
>>>>> To: Hamparian,Don
>>>>> Subject: FW: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with
>>>>> javascript
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think I have to say yes to this, although it isn't going to make us
>>>>> look
>>>>> great.
>>>>> Roy
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>>>> From: Annette Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:55:57 -0400
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with
>>>>> javascript
>>>>> 
>>>>> Roy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just to clarify, you have to be an OCLC cataloging member to use this
>>>>> beyond 100 uses per day, correct?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Annette
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Roy Tennant<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>> This data (the Tic-Tocs RSS URLs) is also available via xISSN. For
>>>>>>           
>>>>> example:
>>>>>         
>>>>>> <http://xissn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/issn/1095-
>>>>>>           
>>>>> 9203?method=getMetadata
>>>>>         
>>>>>> &format=xml&fl=*>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Look for the "rssurl" attribute. For information on xISSN see:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Roy
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 6/11/09 6/11/09 € 12:36 PM, "Derik Badman" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>           
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jon Gorman
>>>>>>>            
>>>>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>>>> I guess the first question is if it is really necessary to use a
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>> text
>>>>>         
>>>>>>>> file?  I'm not entirely clear on this process, but perhaps the text
>>>>>>>> file could be imported into a database.
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> At this point the text file is a stop-gap api that ticTOCs is
>>>>>>>            
>>>>> offering
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> (supposedly working an actual api), so this will probably be a
>>>>>>>            
>>>>> temporary
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> situation. I could put all the data into mysql, though then I'd have
>>>>>>>            
>>>>> to
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> figure out how to check the text file for changes and then update
>>>>>>>            
>>>>> the
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> database accordingly.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>> Then of course perhaps there's some way to add this to the Serials
>>>>>>>> Solution database directly?  Then you don't need another javascript
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>> at
>>>>>         
>>>>>>>> all?
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> I'm so disillusioned with them, that I didn't even consider that...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>> cron + wget/curl would be a good first step it would seem.  You
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>> might
>>>>>         
>>>>>>>> want some sort of script that monitors changes or the like.  (Maybe
>>>>>>>> send you an email if there's no updates in x days or something like
>>>>>>>> that).
>>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Thanks, I'll look into that.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>           
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>>>>>         
>> 
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