Serial Item and Contribution Identifier#References

It is an extension of the International Standard Serial Number, which identifies an entire serial (similar to the way an ISBN identifies a specific book). The ISSN applies to the entire publication, however, including every volume ever printed, so this more specific identifier was developed by the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) to allow references to specific parts of a journal.

The variable-length, free of charge, code is compatible with other identifiers, such as DOI, PII and URN.{{cite web |url=http://www.uksg.org/serials/doi.asp |title=The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) |first=Cliff |last=Morgan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040317053452/http://www.uksg.org/serials/doi.asp |archive-date=2004-03-17}}{{cite journal|last1=Paskin|first1=Norman|title=Document identifiers: an update on current activities|journal=ICSTI Forum|date=September 1996|issue=23|url=http://www.icsti.org/forum/23/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021118041502/http://www.icsti.org/forum/23/index.html |archive-date=2002-11-18}} Prior to January 2009, SICIs were valid DOI suffixes for registration at the Crossref registration agency. However, to accommodate a security problem with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, they decided that they would soon refuse to register DOI suffixes that contain the colon character.{{cite web|url=http://help.crossref.org/establishing_a_doi_suffix_pattern|title=Creating a DOI suffix}}

The SICI is a recognized international standard and is in wide use by publishers and the bibliographic community, primarily as an aid to finding existing articles or issues.{{cite web|title=6. Evaluation of the Identification Schemes|url=http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp2/d2.1/doc0006.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205011615/http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp2/d2.1/doc0006.htm|archive-date=2012-02-05}} JSTOR adopted SICIs in 2001 as its primary article-level identifier and the core of its stable and citation-derivable URLs. SICI was selected over simpler alternatives because of its ability to encompass the many varieties of journal metadata found in JSTOR's archive.[http://news.jstor.org/jstornews/2001/06/june_2001_no_5_issue_2_jstor_a.html JSTOR and "Deep Linking"] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20120715202324/http://news.jstor.org/jstornews/2001/06/june_2001_no_5_issue_2_jstor_a.html |date=15 July 2012 }} – No. 5, Issue 2, JSTORNEWS, June 2001 However, due to difficulties encountered by its partners in calculating the correct values for the title code and the check digit, JSTOR's implementation of the standard ignores those elements.{{cite journal|last1=Koppel|first1=Ted|date=July 2004|title=The SICI Emerges, Cicada-Like, After Eight Years of Dormancy|url=http://www.doi.org/topics/July_04_ISQ_online_version.pdf|journal=Information Standards Quarterly|volume=16|issue=3|pages=1–6 at 1, 4|issn=1041-0031|access-date=2020-04-03}}[http://makealink.jstor.org/sici.standard.html The SICI Standard] – JSTOR {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813091018/http://makealink.jstor.org/sici.standard.html |date=13 August 2006 }} JSTOR now recommends against using SICI, and instead strongly suggests using DOIs instead.{{Cite web|url=http://about.jstor.org/jstor-help-support/discovery-linking#399081|title=SICI Linking|quote=While we will continue to support SICI linking, we advise that linking partners use OpenURL syntax for the most reliable linking experience|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2016-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114033558/http://about.jstor.org/jstor-help-support/discovery-linking#399081|url-status=dead}} This is also done because sometimes multiple articles on the same page have exactly the same name (in particular "Obituary").

The SICI code is composed of three segments, intended to be both human-readable and easy for machines to parse automatically. The following example SICI is explained below:[http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/factfile/standard-numbers/sici/ What is the SICI?] – Bibliographic Management Factfile – UKOLN

; Item

: Abstract from Lynch, Clifford A. "The Integrity of Digital Information; Mechanics and Definitional Issues." JASIS 45:10 (Dec. 1994) p. 737-44

; SICI

: 0002-8231(199412)45:10<737:TIODIM>2.3.TX;2-M

; 0002-8231

: This is the ISSN for the serial, in this case the Journal of the American Society for Information Science

; (199412)

: The chronology part is in parentheses and identifies the date of publication. In this case, it is signified by year and month; 1994 December

; 45:10

: The enumeration part signifies the volume and number; Vol. 45, no. 10.

; <

: Signifies the start of the contribution segment

; 737

: Location code: signifies the page number, frame number, reel number, etc. In this case, page 737

; TIODIM

: Title code: based on the title of the article. In this case, an initialism: "The Integrity of Digital Information; Mechanics and Definitional Issues".

; >

: Signifies the end of the contribution segment

; 2

: Code Structure Identifier (CSI) for the type of SICI being constructed

; 3

: Derivative Part Identifier (DPI) identifies a part of the contribution, such as a table of contents or abstract

; TX

: Format identifier two-letter code signifying the way content is presented. In this case, TX = printed text

; 2-

: Standard version number

; M

: Check character allows a computer to detect errors in the code, similar to ISBN's check digit

; Item

: Bjorner, Susanne. "Who Are These Independent Information Brokers?" Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Feb-Mar. 1995, Vol. 21, no. 3, page 12

; SICI

: 0095-4403(199502/03)21:3<12:WATIIB>2.0.TX;2-J

To use as an [http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=reg&identifier=info:sici/ info] URI, the SICI is percent-encoded and prefixed.

; INFO

: info:sici/1046-8188(199501)13:1%3C69:FTTHBI%3E2.0.TX;2-4

To use in a URN, the SICI is percent-encoded and prefixed.[http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/rfc/rfc22xx/RFC2288.html Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103090753/http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/rfc/rfc22xx/RFC2288.html |date=3 January 2007 }} – {{IETF RFC|2288}} For example, to create a URN for a specific article "[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=195717&jmp=cit&dl=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=531779&CFTOKEN=36836322#CIT From text to hypertext by indexing]" in the journal [http://www.acm.org/pubs/tois/ ACM Transactions on Information Systems]:

; SICI

: 1046-8188(199501)13:1<69:FTTHBI>2.0.TX;2-4

; URN

: URN:SICI:1046-8188(199501)13:1%3C69:FTTHBI%3E2.0.TX;2-4

This could then be used to refer to the article inside an HTML citation (in the element), for instance, in a way that is superior to an HTTP link for documents that are not on the web or have transient URLs:{{cite web|url=http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/articles/urns-and-citations/|title=URNs and bibliographic citations in web authoring – BenMeadowcroft.com}}

A model is presented for converting a collection of documents to hypertext

by means of indexing. The documents are assumed to be semistructured, i.e.,

their text is a hierarchy of parts, and some of the parts consist of natural

language. The model is intended as a framework for specifying hypertextual

reading capabilities for specific application areas and for developing new

automated tools for the conversion of semistructured text to hypertext.

An Internet Draft proposal to officially register the SICI namespace for URNs with IANA was made in 2002, but is currently dormant.{{cite web|url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hakala-sici|title=Using Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names|first=Juna|last= Hakala}}[http://refactored-networks.com/urn/urn-nid-status.html URN NID Assignment Status]

SICI codes can be used as the item ID in a DOI identifier.{{cite journal|url=http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue8/unique-identifiers/|title=Unique Identifiers in a Digital World|journal=Ariadne|first=Andy|last=Powell|date=1 January 1997|issue=8}} In the following example, the number 10.1002 is the DOI's publisher ID, a slash acts as a separator, and the rest, which is publisher-specific, is the SICI code:

• 10.1002/0002-8231(199601)47:1<23:TDOMII>2.0.TX;2-2

CrossRef no longer allows DOIs with colons to be registered, greatly reducing the usefulness of such SICIs.

• (ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56-1991)
• ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56-1996
• ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56-1996 [R2002] (Version 2)

• The BICI is a draft with a very similar format and functionality, using an ISBN instead of an ISSN, used to identify components of a book.
• ISSN
• DOI
• NISO
• OpenURL – tries to solve similar problems like SICI
• Z39.50

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book |title=Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) |id=ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1996 (R2002) |version=ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1996 (Version 2) |isbn=1-880124-28-9 |date=2002 |orig-year=1996-08-14 |publisher=NISO Press |publication-place=Bethesda, Maryland, USA |issn=1041-5653 |lccn=96-43631 |url=http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-56.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027214202/http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-56.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-27}} (35 pages)
• {{cite web |title=SICI: Serial Item and Contribution Identifier Standard – ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1996 Version 2 |version=2 |date=1997-12-01 |editor-first=Cecilia |editor-last1=Preston |editor-first2=Jerry |editor-last2=McDonough |publisher=Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:80/SICI/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124230211/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SICI/ |archive-date=2005-11-24 |access-date=2021-03-06 }}

• [http://cendi.dtic.mil/presentations/ref_link_blixrud.ppt SICI and BICI: Identifiers for Serials and Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520222040/http://cendi.dtic.mil/presentations/ref_link_blixrud.ppt |date=2011-05-20 }} – PowerPoint document contains examples
• [http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/identifier.pdf Identifiers and Their Role In Networked Information Applications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114132241/http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/identifier.pdf |date=2012-11-14 }}

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