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Thanks for the info, I can add "+dt:ser" to my links in the meantime. Jonathan Roy Tennant wrote: > At the request of Chuck Costakas of the Open WorldCat team, I'm getting back > to you all on Jonathan's good question about how an ISSN link is handled. At > the moment, I think we're in agreement that it doesn't work exactly as it > should. That is, we believe a link to an ISSN should be treated differently > than a search of that ISSN: > > - If you travel the _link_ to http://worldcat.org/issn/00253154 you should > see only the journal records that match that ISSN. > - If you _search_ the ISSN, then you should retrieve all records that have > that ISSN, including individual articles. > > At the moment, you can get just the serial records by limiting to that > record type; for example: > > http://worldcat.org/search?q=issn:0025-3154+dt:ser > > So thanks for pointing that out and we'll see what we can do to make it > function like what is described above. If you want more information, Chuck > is willing to be contacted directly at: > > Chuck Costakos > OCLC > Phone: 614-764-6255 > Toll-Free: 800-848-5878 ext 6255 (USA and Canada only) > Fax: 614-764-0496 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > Thanks, > Roy > > >> ------ Forwarded Message >> From: Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:10:08 -0400 >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results? >> >> So if I actually want "the periodical with this ISSN assigned", and >> > not > >> "a record that happens to exist for a article in this periodical"... >> > is > >> there anything I can do? >> >> Would that ISSN assigned to a record that's really for an article not >> for a title be considered bad data? Are you supposed to have an ISSN >> > on > >> such a record? >> >> Jonathan >> >> Nicole Engard wrote: >> >>> Here's my guess. >>> >>> That ISSN is attached to several records: >>> >>> http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=0025-3154&=Search&qt=owc_search >>> >>> So it just picked one since that's all it can show. If you see the >>> >> search >> >>> results the first result is the journal itself. >>> >>> It all depends on how the catalogers enter the data into OCLC in the >>> >> first >> >>> place ... >>> >>> Nicole >>> >>> On 9/4/07, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Check this one out: >>>> >>>> http://www.worldcat.org/issn/00253154 >>>> >>>> Why is it returning a specific article as the result, instead of the >>>> record for the entire journal with issn 0025-3154? Does that URL >>>> > not > >>>> mean what I think it means? The record for the journal title is >>>> > there > >> in >> >>>> Worldcat, as you can see by clicking on the journal title hyperlink. >>>> >>>> I wonder if this is location (zip code) dependent, and nobody else >>>> > is > >>>> even going to see this but me. But for me, that URL does not return >>>> >> the >> >>>> journal title, but instead returns the record for one particular >>>> >> article >> >>>> that happens to be in the journal. >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jonathan Rochkind >>>> Digital Services Software Engineer >>>> The Sheridan Libraries >>>> Johns Hopkins University >>>> 410.516.8886 >>>> rochkind (at) jhu.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- >> Jonathan Rochkind >> Digital Services Software Engineer >> The Sheridan Libraries >> Johns Hopkins University >> 410.516.8886 >> rochkind (at) jhu.edu >> >> ------ End of Forwarded Message >> >> >> >> NEW FEATURES: >> >> >> Query: >> OCLC Number: 1756690 >> Title: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of >> > the > >> United Kingdom. >> ISBN: >> ISSN: 0025-3154 >> Author: Marine Biological Association of the United >> > Kingdom. > >> > > -- > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu