SISAC Barcodes

SISAC is an acronym which stands for Serials Industry Systems 
Advisory Committee, an organization which was created in the 
United States in 1982 to develop standardized exchange formats 
to facilitate the handling of serial publications (in 
particular in transactions between libraries, subscription 
agencies and publishers).

For details see:  http://www.issn.org/sisac.html

SISAC barcodes represent a SICI code, which is generally 
printed underneath the bars. The following extract from 
the barcodes Help system indicates the entry required to 
generate the SICI code and the SISAC barcode.

Unlike most other barcodes the SISAC barcode symbol does 
not have a one-to-one correspondence with the SICI code 
printed underneath it. dBarcode SC generates the SISAC 
barcode from the SICI code, and it can only do this if 
the SICI code itself is correct. If the SICI code is not 
correct then the library will report error number 10.

The SICI code must be entered into the Code edit box or 
supplied as a database field, and it must contain at 
least the following items:

The ISSN number complete with a hyphen between 
digits 4 and 5, e.g. 1234-5678

A date item enclosed in brackets. If no date item is 
required the () symbols MUST STILL BE PRESENT.

A number item is optional. e.g. 14:1

Index or supplement numbers are optional, e.g. *1

The standard version number which is currently ;1- 
and all three characters MUST BE PRESENT

A SICI check digit may immediately follow the - of the 
version number. The check digit may be entered manually 
or may be calculated by dBarcode by enabling Auto Checksum.

Note: When copying SICI codes from publications it is not 
always easy to distinguish the : and ; characters. 
SICI codes ALWAYS end with (semicolon) ;1-n 
where n is a check digit.

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