[Koha-bugs] [Bug 3681] New: No bimonthly frequency option for serials subscriptions

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           Summary: No bimonthly frequency option for serials subscriptions
           Product: Koha
           Version: rel_3_0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux - Debian
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: Serials
        AssignedTo: paul.poulain at biblibre.com
        ReportedBy: Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
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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.


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