Talk:CODEN

Online resources

On Template talk:Infobox Journal#CODEN linkage I have asked about online lookup resources for CODEN. John Vandenberg 02:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

no actual online lookup resources for CODEN available, since its "prorietary" to CAS, and they do not want, obviously, to publish all the contents of the collected CODEN database openly on the web. Only reliable source for CODEN is CASSI, nothing else! --Steven69 (talk) 22:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

bad link

The external link

• Homepage of the International CODEN Service

returns

404 Not Found

The page you requested was not found. The link you followed may be incorrect or outdated. Please try the CAS home page or the CAS site search to find the information you are looking for.

I have deleted the link. --Thnidu (talk) 02:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

The info is not available....

at the top ranked journals, such as Journal of Biological Chemistry http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22CODEN%22+site%3Awww.jbc.org&btnG=Search&cts=1249085740679&aq=f&oq=&aqi= --222.64.209.227 (talk) 00:19, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

You seems to be jocking. The CODEN does not need to be available on a journals site, since the CODEN is not issued by the journal itself, but from ACS, and there from CAS at the CODEN department. You can seach for CODEN at CASSI, but I doubt you know what CASSI is. My advice to you: please do not trust to all facts that only are accessible by searching with google. Hope you can read also books, and hopefully you are able to go to a library and know how use and seach in a "real library". Maybe that helps to give you evidence....., but I guess not....--Steven69 (talk) 22:02, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Template CODEN for unified appearance and easier maintenance

I have created a {{CODEN}} template to help unify the inclusion and display of CODEN codes in articles (including inside of citations via {{citation}} - at least for as long as it does not support a |coden= parameter by itself). At present, it is just a trivially simple "wrapper", taking a CODEN code as a parameter and displaying it. However, active usage of the template potentially allows for centralized maintenance of the appearance, to add meta-data framing and some parameter validation. It also helps machine readability of CODEN codes by bots. Unfortunately, direct linking is not easily possible, but at least in theory, the template could - in the future - implement some "internal" database-driven lookup mechanism changing the display of known CODEN codes into active links. This database would have be to fed by associations originally provided by users or bots collecting CODEN ids and their associations from other resources (or by comparing them with other data such as ISSNs). The more the template gets used when citing CODEN codes, the higher the chances the template will provide some useful functionality in the future. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 22:30, 31 March 2016 (UTC)