Thanks, Kyle. The ISI publishes a list that we're probably going to
use, just was wondering if we needed to style the abbrevs differently
for some journals. I'm leaning towards your last suggestion,
personally. If anyone notices and complains, that will tell us who
still cares.

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:25 PM, William Gunn <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, Kyle. Where would you suggest I go to look
>> up the titles?
>>
>
> I haven't read OCLC's terms and conditions for some time, but my first
> reaction would be to use their stuff if permitted since that's where you'll
> find the best data and it's easy to query.   Another route would be to just
> do the lookup in some major library catalog (preferably a major
> consortia). If you have access to a major database, dumping a bunch of
> records, extracting/normalizing titles, and checking against that is a
> reasonable course of action.
>
> Note that the abbreviated titles you see in those lists are key titles and
> not just any 'ol abbreviations -- if you do the appropriate search, you'll
> retrieve the full title, and if it already is the full title you'll find
> out right away since it will match MARC 245
>
> In the problem were mine, I'd take the lazy man's approach and not worry
> about it. Few people put in more than a couple hundred citations in any
> publication and fixing abbreviated titles would represent a minuscule
> amount of the total time using a particular resource. Plus, people have
> gotten loose 'n easy with punctuation in recent times so hardly anyone will
> care and the few that do can be dismissed as wackos... ;-)
>
> kyle