Bug 3681 - No bimonthly frequency option for serials subscriptions
Summary: No bimonthly frequency option for serials subscriptions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7688
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Serials (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: PC All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Paul Poulain
QA Contact:
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-09-30 09:16 UTC by Ian Walls
Modified: 2013-08-21 09:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Change sponsored?: ---
Patch complexity: ---
Documentation contact:
Documentation submission:
Text to go in the release notes:
Version(s) released in:


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 01:13:40 UTC


---- Reported by ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com 2009-09-30 21:16:37 ----

Bimonthly serials (published twice a month, or 24 times a year), do not have an available frequency in serials/subscription-add.pl.  2/week does not work, since that expects 26 issues per volume.  Using irregular is problematic, particularly when bimonthly is quite regular and common.

Shouldn't be too hard to add a case in the Javascript to handle this; value 13 is still available, but logically, this should be value 4 or 5.  That would require displacing existing periodicity values, however.

A better, larger solution would be to change the values from numeric to alphanumeric, and match them to the MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data 853$ field (http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/hd853855.html): 

a - Annual  	j - Three times a month
b - Bimonthly 	k - Continuously updated
c - Semiweekly 	m - Monthly
d - Daily 	q - Quarterly
e - Biweekly 	s - Semimonthly
f - Semiannual 	t - Three times a year
g - Biennial 	w - Weekly
h - Triennial 	x - Completely irregular
i - Three times a week

This would improve standardization, provide more immediate options, and increase the flexibility to add new options down the road, without insertion problems.  A numeric can also be taken in 853$w to indicate the number of issues per year, for an irregular serial.



---- Additional Comments From colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com 2010-05-04 09:45:34 ----

I think the frequency referred to here is what Marc21 refers to as semi monthly, bimonthly being used for periodicals published every two months. The nearest to this is the current one issue every two weeks. For clarification here's the definition of the terms as found in some oclc MARC documentation.

	
a Annual. The item is issued or updated once a year.
b Bimonthly. The item is issued or updated every two months. Use also for publications whose frequency is identified as six, seven or eight numbers a year.
	
c Semiweekly. The item is issued or updated twice a week.
	
d Daily. The item is issued or updated once a day. May include Saturday and Sunday.
	
e Biweekly. The item is issued or updated every two weeks.
	
f Semiannual. The item is issued or updated twice a year. Use also for publications whose frequency is identified as two numbers a year.
	
g Biennial. The item is issued or updated every two years.
	
h Triennial. The item is issued or updated every three years.
	
i Three times a week. The item is issued or updated three times a week.
	
j Three times a month. The item is issued or updated three times a month.
	
k Continuously updated. The item is updated more frequently than daily.
	
m Monthly. The item is issued or updated every month. Includes frequencies of nine, ten, eleven or twelve numbers a year.
	
q Quarterly. The item is issued or updated every three months. Use also for publications whose frequency is identified as four numbers a year.
	
s Semimonthly. The item is issued or updated twice a month.
	
t Three times a year. The item is issued or updated three times a year.
	
u Unknown. The current frequency is not known. 
	
w Weekly. The item is issued once a week.
	
z Other. The frequency of the item cannot be defined by any of the other codes.

Koha frequencies assume reqular intervals. This may not correspond correctly to actual publishing patterns. i.e. two issues a year nay not be evenly spaced six months apart.  

Needs thought...



--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:13 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3681 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3681

Unknown operating system Linux - Debian. Setting to default OS "All".
Actual time not defined. Setting to 0.0
CC member jwagner@ptfs.com does not have an account here

Comment 1 Paul Poulain 2011-08-02 14:13:24 UTC
still relevant
Comment 2 Jonathan Druart 2013-08-21 09:28:44 UTC
Will be fixed by bug 7688.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7688 ***