The journal heading and its function in the system of contemporary scholarly communication

Abstract

The paper focuses on the role of the journal heading in the context of academic research. It indicates the difficulties that can be frequently encountered with determining the journal’s  proper title as different title versions are found in different sources (e.g. web page, NUKAT, ISSN database). Another problem emerges from the changes that are made to the journal heading, especially as the publishers do not notify the readers about modifications being introduced and unexpectedly release individual volumes with independent titles or carrying different ISBN numbers. Thus the journal title identification and bibliographic recording become a task which can not be simply carried out and further disturbance with inappropriate source citing recognition is likely to be met.