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["BAKER, Chris" <chris.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not, exclusivelya SUSHI question  but I feel certain that people on 
this list are among the right ones to discuss it, so I hope you don't mind me 
raising it.

Many COUNTER reports require an ISBN and ISSN field.
Publishers often have many ISBNs -including ones that do not affect the content 
that the customer sees  e.g. paperback and hardback ISBNs or ISBNs for various 
sales offerings (such as bundles of titles).#

Which ISBNs do you use?

Some of us at OUP have been musing about suggesting to COUNTER that the ISSN or 
ISBN fields ought to be replaced by a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) field. 
Our thinking is this -  the idea of quoting an ISSN or ISBN is to give the 
librarian a reference with which she can compare usage of the same content from 
two suppliers (we think). If that is so, then the modern way of unambiguously 
identifying a piece of content is the DOI.

Your thoughts please!

We have thought of one caveat abotu thsi idea (maybe you can think of more)-
Do many people make format assumptions abotu the ISBN and ISSN fields when they 
process SUSHI or manually downloaded COUNTER reports? (E.g. you might assume 
that the ISBN field will always be a 13-digit numeral - This assumption would 
become wrong if DOIs were used instead)?





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