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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It may depend on exactly what you need.
>
> The ISSN Centre offer licensed access to their ISSN portal at a cost
> http://www.issn.org - my experience is that this is pretty comprehensive
> The ISSN Centre also offer a download of ISSN-L tables - this is available
> for free (although you have to state what you intend to do with it before
> you can download) - this is just ISSNs (mapped to their ISSN-Ls) but if you
> don't need bibliographic details then it would be a good source
> As well as WorldCat you could also try Suncat which offers a z39.50
> connection http://www.suncat.ac.uk/support/z-target.shtml, but obviously
> this has the same issue as the WorldCat approach
> GOKb and KB+ are both initiatives trying to build knowledgebases
> containing many ISSNs with data to be made available under a CC0
> declaration. Both of these are focussed on describing bundles/packages of
> journals. GOKb is going to be going into preview imminently (
> http://gokb.org/news) and KB+ already offers downloads
> http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport. KB+ currently has details of
> around 25k journals.
> There may also be some largescale open data initiatives that give you a
> reasonably good set of ISSNs. For example the RLUK release of 60m+ records
> at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access/data/lod, or the
> 12million records released by Harvard
> http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata (both CC0)
>
> Owen
>
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> On 17 Oct 2014, at 03:16, Stuart Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that
> worldcat allows querying of their database by ISSN.
> >
> > Which method of sampling the ISSN namespace is going to cause least
> pain? http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/ seems to be the one talked about, but
> is there another that's less resource intensive? Maybe someone's already
> exported this data?
> >
> > cheers
> > stuart
> > --
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