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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
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Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?
> Are you supposed to have an ISSN on
> such a record?
Seems like a lot of article databases include the journal's ISSN with each
article record, typically in the 020, if the data is stored (or at least
exposed) as MARC
>> http://www.worldcat.org/issn/00253154
This link brings up an article record, apparently from ArticleFirst.
(FYI, worldcat.org is including results from the GPO, ArticleFirst,
Medline and ERIC databases -- I just found that out now.)
On 9/4/07, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wou
On 9/4/07 2:29 PM, "Keith Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, Jonathan, I'd suggest reporting this via the
> "feedback" link at the bottom of the worldcat.org page. Hopefully
> they can correct this odd behaviour (while it's still in "beta").
I already did that...
Roy
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 ha
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 d
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 b
