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