Comments on: ISSN Assigned for CE: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/03/08/issn-assigned-for-ce/ ISSN 1754-0909 (Online) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:42:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Gabriel Bodard http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/03/08/issn-assigned-for-ce/#comment-21 Gabriel Bodard Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:09:28 +0000 http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/03/08/issn-assigned-for-ce/#comment-21 This is a good question. To answer the second part first: registering an ISSN should cost nothing, you do it through a deposit library or similar (we did it through the BL, for example). If you publish a serial and can demonstrate that it is not of merely local or ephemeral interest, they should assign you an ISSN. (Some registrars apparently will object to assigning an ISSN to a blog; see <a href="http://fawny.org/issn/compatibility/" rel="nofollow">http://fawny.org/issn/compatibility/</a> for some discussion of and responses to such an objection.) You first question, however, is less obvious. What do you gain by registering an ISSN? What does any serial gain from same? Recognition, a certain official status, the right to be archived and indexed by a deposit library, etc. To quote <a href="http://fawny.org/issn/" rel="nofollow">Joe Clark</a> again, "Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals." There may be more to discuss on this question. Tom, do you have anything to add? This is a good question. To answer the second part first: registering an ISSN should cost nothing, you do it through a deposit library or similar (we did it through the BL, for example). If you publish a serial and can demonstrate that it is not of merely local or ephemeral interest, they should assign you an ISSN. (Some registrars apparently will object to assigning an ISSN to a blog; see http://fawny.org/issn/compatibility/ for some discussion of and responses to such an objection.)

You first question, however, is less obvious. What do you gain by registering an ISSN? What does any serial gain from same? Recognition, a certain official status, the right to be archived and indexed by a deposit library, etc. To quote Joe Clark again, “Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals.”
There may be more to discuss on this question. Tom, do you have anything to add?

]]> By: Peter Head http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/03/08/issn-assigned-for-ce/#comment-19 Peter Head Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:34:27 +0000 http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/03/08/issn-assigned-for-ce/#comment-19 I am curious as to the benefits (and costs?) of having a blog registered with an ISSN. I am curious as to the benefits (and costs?) of having a blog registered with an ISSN.

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