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This thread makes me nostalgic for the good old days when dchud still ran jake. https://web.archive.org/web/20060114022931/http://www.jake-db.org/ 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 > > Owen Stephens > Owen Stephens Consulting > Web: http://www.ostephens.com > Email: [log in to unmask] > Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > > 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 > > -- > > I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 >