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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