[CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?

2007-09-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?

2007-09-04 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?

2007-09-04 Thread Roy Tennant
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?

2007-09-04 Thread Keith Jenkins
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: Would