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> Are you supposed to have an ISSN on > such a record? Seems like a lot of article databases include the journal's ISSN with each article record, typically in the 020, if the data is stored (or at least exposed) as MARC. Very useful piece of information to have, in my opinion, so I'm glad they do this! :-) --Dave ------------------- David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Tue 9/4/2007 1:10 PM 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