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kovidgoyal · 07-23-2014, 02:03 AM

As far as I know, there is no way to map ISSN to URL unlike say DOI or ISBN. As such while you can certainly enter ISSN numbers in the identifiers field, they are of limited usefulness.

EDIT: Actually, it turns out that worldcat does support linking ISSNs. Will be in next release.

07-23-2014, 02:03 AM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,435 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	As far as I know, there is no way to map ISSN to URL unlike say DOI or ISBN. As such while you can certainly enter ISSN numbers in the identifiers field, they are of limited usefulness. EDIT: Actually, it turns out that worldcat does support linking ISSNs. Will be in next release. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 07-23-2014 at 02:22 AM.