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
>
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