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Publisher Item Identifier

The Publisher Item Identifier (PII) is a unique identifier used by a number of scientific journal publishers to identify documents.{{cite web|url=http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/pii/ |title=Publisher Item Identifier as a means of document identification |website= Elsevier |date= 9 April 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031013073003/http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/homepage/about/pii/ |archive-date=2003-10-13 }} It uses the pre-existing ISSN or ISBN of the publication in question, and adds a character for source publication type, an item number, and a check digit.

The system was adopted in 1996 by the American Chemical Society, the

American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society,

Elsevier Science, and the IEEE.

Format

A PII (pii) is a 17-character string, consisting of:

  • one character to indicate source publication type: "S" = serial with ISSN, "B" = book with ISBN
  • ISSN (8 digits) or ISBN (10 characters) of the serial or book to which the publication item is primarily assigned
  • in the case of serials an additional two digit number to pad the difference between the 8-digit ISSN and an ISBN (suggested are the last two digits of calendar year of the date of assignment, which is not necessarily identical to the cover date)
  • a 5-digit number assigned by the publisher that is unique to the publication item within the serial or book
  • a check digit (0-9 or X)

When a PII is printed (as opposed to stored in a database), the 17-character string may be extended with punctuation characters to make it more readable to humans, as in Sxxxx-xxxx(yy)iiiii-d or Bx-xxx-xxxxx-x/iiiii-d.

Example

  • {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.037 |pmid=22169532 |id={{pii|issn=0960-9822|year=11|id=01319|check=4}} |issn=0960-9822 |title=The Single-Molecule Mechanics of the Latent TGF-β1 Complex |journal=Current Biology |volume=21 |issue=24 |pages=2046–2054 |date=2011 |author-last1=Buscemi |author-first1=Lara |author-last2=Ramonet |author-first2=David |author-last3=Klingberg |author-first3=Franco |author-last4=Formey |author-first4=Aurélie |author-last5=Smith-Clerc |author-first5=Josiane |author-last6=Meister |author-first6=Jean-Jacques |author-last7=Hinz |author-first7=Boris|doi-access=free |bibcode=2011CBio...21.2046B }}

See also

References

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External links

  • {{cite journal|url=http://www.icsti.org/forum/23/index.html#identifiers |title=Document identifiers: an update on current activities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021118041502/http://www.icsti.org/forum/23/index.html#identifiers |archive-date=2002-11-18 |author=Norman Paskin |journal= Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

|issue= 23 |date=September 1996}}

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