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
>>
>>
>
>

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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
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