Re: [jats-list] Journal meta: Multiple volumes

["Mike Eden meden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laura,
I see I'm late. 
I've seen cumulative issue number rolling through series and volumes. This 
does seem to be a thing of yesteryear. But to have the volume being 
presented like this as well is a bit special i think :-)

Would <volume-id> and <issue-id> be considered tag abuse.  ?

Name or identifier (for example, DOI) that describes an entire volume. 

Name or identifier of an entire journal issue (for example, a DOI). The 
related element <issue> records the published issue number of the journal. 
This <issue-id> element is usually a more complex number, but a few 
publishers use the issue number plus a prefix or suffix as the issue 
identifier. 

Effectively the publisher at the time was providing a different conceptual 
id for the volume and issue, so does describe the volume and issue in a 
different way than the vol 1 issue 1 that it is within that series.

In most cases we've seen like this the cumulative numbers have not been 
used in citations, but the series volume issue are declared. 


Regards

Mike Eden






From:   "Randall, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] laura.randall@xxxxxxx" 
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To:     "jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
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Date:   05/06/2014 15:07
Subject:        [jats-list] Journal meta: Multiple volumes



Hello, all.

I've come across a situation with a very old journal that appears to have 
more than one volume. A scan of the relevant page image is available here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6MQUWovAMjaVW1xQ1ZRbVZPSEk/edit?pli=1

This title periodically begins what it calls a "New Series" and the first 
issue published with "New Series" (left-hand side of the image) has No. 1, 
Vol. 1. It also publishes the cumulative issue number, in this case 1073. 
We have an example of that (from our last back issue scanning project, 
actually) and that's easily captured with

<issue content-type="publication">17</issue>

But what I don't know what to do with is the additional volume information 
provided.

That volume is akin to the cumulative issue--in 1907, The Hospital was 
publishing its 62nd volume, but that particular issue was the first of the 
New Series.

I'm hesitant to request that the JATS-SC consider making <volume> 
repeatable (in Green only, of course), but I'm not sure I see any 
non-custom-meta way around this.

Has anyone else dealt with this kind of volume numbering? Does anyone have 
any ideas on how to capture it?

Many thanks,
Laura