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In LastDodo we have divided the printed matter into various sections. By printed matter I mean anything that is printed on paper (or comparable material).
Relevant current categories are: Books, Other (sub-categories), Comics and Magazines. Future heading is advertising printed matter.
Many series / series are probably now in the wrong section. We would like to clarify this, so that users can look more closely and enter new items more easily.
Before we start with large-scale movements, we must first clearly define what belongs in each section.
Everyone has a sense of what a Magazine is now, but the problem is to capture this in a manageable definition.
Wikipedia describes it as:


A magazine, periodical, monthly or weekly (also magazine, English) is a periodic publication that consists of a collection of articles per issue. A magazine can contain paid advertisements. In other cases, the magazine is funded entirely by the sale price or functions as a communication tool to members and donors of an organization. Most magazines rely on mixed funding based on advertising and sales.
Traditionally, a magazine is printed on paper. There are also magazines that only appear in digital form.
A magazine is distinguished from a newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.



But this is not enough to determine clearly whether an item is a Magazine or not. Examples works better than descriptions, so for example Perry Rhodan. The first 6 volumes were issued in pocket format. After that, they switched to the comics format and were published periodically (weekly, biweekly, monthly). Cover title is Perry Rhodan + sequel number. In addition, the title of the story is also printed on the cover. It contains 68 pages including cover and staples.
According to Wikipedia's strict definition, this is not a Magazine, because it is not a collection of articles. PR always contains a story written by an author, but it is a sequel to the previous issue.
There are many more examples that can be grouped under several sections.
While writing, I personally tend more and more towards the strict Wikipedia definition. Even then there will always be gray areas, but we will have to make a decision about that.
Are there more manageable definitions of what makes a Journal a journal?
Tammo
N.B. Before our cleaners feel called upon to immediately mark items as Wrong rubric, please do not do this. Transfers are so large that this will have to be done by programmers and then a field with Wrong rubric is very disturbing
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Are there any enthusiasts who want to say something about Magazines?
Probably I could have done better with Stamp Magazines :-)
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February 25, 2021 19:06
The weekly Tintin is a magazine. The albums or bundles are not published periodically, are they magazines?

Ohee is a magazine but always contains a full story, has no regular columns or reader's letters, ... Is that a magazine because it was published on a regular basis? The Kapoentjes editions of Jommeke will not be labeled as a magazine, but it also said on the cover: " quarterly ".
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But I think you should indeed just use your common sense, in combination with that definition you have come a long way. And here and there gray zone where a decision has to be made. Don't hesitate, chop!
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Why not grab the magazines that are out there and judge whether it is a magazine or not. Throwing doubts into the group. This is how a definition comes about
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February 25, 2021 20:49
Ohee is a magazine but each time contains a full story, has no regular features or readers' letters, ... Is that a magazine because it came out on a regular basis?

To clarify for the group:
Ohee is not a magazine, but an album in the Comics section.
And Sexi maxi is not a Magazine, but a book in the Books section.
Pep is not a magazine at Strips, but a magazine in the Magazines section.
Perry Rhodan is not a magazine, but a novel in the Books category.
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So, Tammo, you chop it up ... :-)
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So, Tammo, you have a good chop ... :-)

That's right, but I'm trying to get clarity, so that we don't keep spinning around endlessly.
So come on and argue why or not agree with the 4 choices mentioned.
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Fully agree.
Periodic appearance is a feature of a magazine, but not the most important. (In my opinion, for example, De Poezenkrant is a real magazine, even if it appears at completely random times and in the most diverse versions.)

The collectors concerned will leave it cold in any case.
Perry Rhodan enthusiasts don't collect magazines, they collect Perry Rhodan.
Ohee did call himself "youth magazine" in the beginning, but I think collectors (especially those who only look for the numbers of certain artists) prefer them to you want to find the comics (comic books ) in the magazine section.
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A periodical, periodical, monthly or weekly (also magazine, English) is a periodical publication that consists of a collection of articles per issue.

I think we should look at what was intended in terms of periodic publication. Some journals start with a few trial / test issues (see #135415 and #150605 ) and some stop after 1 issue because too few were sold. I think it's still magazines.



A magazine differs from a daily newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.

I think this distinction is so clear.



Pep is not a magazine at Strips, but a magazine in the Magazines section.

We must think carefully about this first. The stories in magazines now all contain references to series, artists, etc. There is a lot of work involved and it must be preserved as well as possible.



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Pep is not a magazine at Strips, but a magazine in the Magazines section.
Is there any intention to make further subdivisions?
Does everything fall under the big denominator "magazine" or will a separate denominator "comic magazines" be created?
That seems even more difficult to draw straight lines.
We must think carefully about this first. The stories in magazines now all contain references to series, artists, etc. There is a lot of work involved and it must be preserved as well as possible.
Since I also spent quite a bit of time adding info there, I would be sorry if things were lost.

I also prefer to see my magazines (usually comic-related) listed with my comics, but I fully understand (from an organizational point of view) if they end up under magazines.


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Since I also spent quite a bit of time adding information there, I would be sorry if things were to be lost.

No information may be lost in any decision whatsoever. Transferring to another section is a precarious process and must be done well thoughtfully.

The LastDodo catalog is organized on the basis of different Objects. That is where the shoe pinches with, among others, Pep. In accordance with every definition, it is a Magazine, but intuitively it belongs to the Comics section. But in this way we keep going around and hope that a much better idea will emerge from top hat.
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That's where the shoe pinches with, among others, Pep. It is a Magazine in accordance with every definition, but intuitively it belongs to the section Comics.
Just chop. That's a magazine. Otherwise there will be no end.
Whatever my feelings as a collector say.

Soon we will publish a booklet like the Scamp also put under the strips. Okay, comic collectors look for it because of the two Vandersteen strips on the back, but otherwise there is no strip in the entire book. Just belongs to magazines.
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Just chop. That's a magazine. Otherwise there will be no end.
Whatever my feeling as a collector says.

Soon we will be booklet like the Scamp also under the comics. Okay, comic collectors look for it because of the two Vandersteen strips on the back, but otherwise there is no strip in the entire book. Just belongs to magazines.

Agree. We just have to think carefully about how to preserve those references to Vandersteen and the like. And make sure that people understand where these kinds of comic magazines have gone, otherwise they will be reintroduced to Comics.

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@ Rene @ JozefK @Tammo

Items are entered on the basis of object.
A magazine, whether it is about comics, sports, music, ... is and remains a magazine.
And therefore belongs in the section 'Magazines'.
And ... in the section Magazines you can indicate in the field 'Genre' what it is about: Comics, Music, Sports, ...
And there is also a field 'Writer' and 'Illustrator' '. Make these fields 'Writer / Author' and 'Illustrator / Draftsman' and then you still catch the "problem" with comics?
By the way, at the Magazines the genre 'Comics' has already been largely broken down into' Series / hero.
A newcomer who enters a magazine and follows the basic manual usually always places it with Magazines.
And you can still link to the Comics section (and other sections ...). The only exception would be periodic appearances of (un) complete comics in comics form. Such as Ohee, Pep, Tintin,
For the Ohee, Pep, Tintin, ... is the key question? What is most important as an object? The comic strip or the magazine? Because it is both the one and the other.
But my idea so, keep it simple, exceptions just make it needlessly more complicated ...
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This is a discussion that has been going on in the library and archive world since 1870. I had to look up that year.

I prefer to use the English Wikipedia definition for periodicals, because it does not contain the limitation of different articles:
Periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a category of serial
publications that appear in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar example is the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Newspapers, often published daily or weekly, are, strictly speaking, a separate category of serial. Other examples of periodicals are newsletters, literary magazines (literary journals), academic journals (including scientific journals), science magazines, yearbooks and comic books.

Perry Rhodan (at least the soft cover copies) is pulp to me, so a magazine. Just like Hollister, Colt45, Western44 and all those other doctor and castle novel releases. You would immediately throw it out with the restriction "multiple articles". Where should they be placed?

The English definition does explicitly mention comic books, but that is because it is grafted onto the American comics culture, not the European comic book culture. I would just leave it under comics, because our definition of comic is different from the pure definition of the American comic.

So where do those mixed-bag expenses belong? Good question. They are comics related, but are they comics.
Strictly speaking, they are periodicals. But what do we do with, for example, the Donald Duck Weekly? That is not just one continuous story, but with editorial pieces, an issn, letters sent in, reading stories, advertisements, etc. In other words: mixed-bag.
I myself would leave it under comics, as comic related.

We will be discussing this much more as there are so many different periodicals in various shapes, types, sizes, etc.

I once wrote a small piece for another site about the numbers:
UlrichsWeb (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/faqs.asp), an authoritative database in this field, has over 330,000 (mostly active) periodical titles with accompanying metadata. They span the whole globe, but state there are significant omissions in their coverage. Two of the largest countries (China and India) are far from complete, because of lack of accurate information. They don't cover all kinds of comics, e-Zines, fan club newsletters or other private zines. So these have to be added also.

To calculate how many periodical titles are issued yearly, I make some assumptions:
Total active periodical titles, based on above information: 350,000. On average each title has 20 issues per year (this is highly speculative but based on dailies, weeklies, monthlies etc.)
So, I suspect there are 350,000 x 20 = 7,000,000 active individual periodical issues per year. And this is without all the titles that have folded since 1663, the year in which the first to-be-called magazine was launched in Germany.

I wouldn't dare to make a calculated guess how much individual periodical issues have seen the light of day since then.
In short, nobody knows what periodicals have been published and which are still available somehow.


Here are some types that we haven't talked about yet:
fanzines, e-sentences, newsletters, private or indie publications, etc.

In short: this discussion has been going on in the academic world for a long time and will continue for a long time.
We shouldn't try to figure it out, but find a practical definition, workable for LastDodo.
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In short: this discussion has been going on in the academic world for a long time and will continue for a long time.
We should not try to figure it out, but find a practical definition, workable for LastDodo.

Thanks for this extensive information.
We all agree that we will not be able to determine a 100% conclusive definition. That is why I would like to see practical solutions presented, preferably with appealing examples.
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Yep, totally agree. Below is a summary of what I just posted.

My suggestion is to use the English definition for periodicals, with an exception for comics, comics, comic related and anything else that falls under it. We have comics for that.

I think that "multiple articles" restriction should be removed, otherwise we will exclude a considerable part of the pulp literature again.

On that way we come a long way, I think.
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Incidentally, we will also have a discussion with the new section Advertising printed matter.
After all: various retail chains publish their own "magazine":
They are all advertising magazines in magazine form.

Are these advertising printed matter or magazines?

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All issues listed in these issues are I think periodicals (aka magazines):

I have these parts at home. However, there are more such repertories on magazines, newspapers, etc.
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@DeBijzaak
What exactly do you understand by pulp?
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See the English page on Wikipedia for that:
Pulp magazine

And for a decent complete english overview I usually use:
PhilSP
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I probably have a completely different impression of the term pulp sheets than you have. The question is very simple: How do I recognize what pulp is and should therefore be entered as Magazine? And what is not pulp and must be entered as a Book?
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Ah, that's what you mean.
published periodically with "soft" cover and on relatively cheap paper = & gt; pulp
published in the more traditional book form so "bound" with spine etc = & gt; book

That is very short-sighted, but are the most important "criteria" for me.

With the first Rhodan releases it becomes a choice:
we keep series together under pulp = & gt; magazine because most of it has appeared in that form
of
we split it into books and magazines with references back and forth.
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@DeBijzaak, interestingly say you already have so much experience with this topic.

Pulp is perhaps not clear enough because some use this term to say something about the content and because there are also pulp strips such as this and this and I have this kind of comics can also be referred to as pulp. And I think it would be best if they stay in the Comics section.

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