Re: Opinions requested on Journal of geophysical research ISSN practice Ann Ercelawn 30 Sep 2005 14:42 UTC
p.s. While not directly addressing your query, I'd refer you to this info which I recently put together in frustration with publishers' ejournal presentation practices: <http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/bestpractices.htm> Ann --On Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:24 PM -0400 Eric Hellman <eric@OPENLY.COM> wrote: > Here at Openly we've been studying how best to deal with AGU's > Journal of Geophysical Research in our ejournal management > services. > > As many of you probably know, AGU considers (or at one time > considered) this to be a single journal with a single ISSN > 0148-0227, but sections of the journal are marketed and delivered > as separate products, vis the "journals" web page: > > J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos. > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. D17 2005 Sep 16 > J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surface > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. F2 2005 Apr-Jun > J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. C8 2005 Aug 15 > J. Geophys. Res. - Planets > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. E8 2005 Aug 25 > J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. B8 2005 Aug 10 > J. Geophys. Res. - Space Phys. > ISSN 0148-0227 Vol. 110, No. A8 2005 Aug 1 > > At one time, separate ISSNs were assigned to the sections. AGU > objected to this and had these ISSNs "cancelled". > > Our problem with this is how to express, in a library's > electronic holdings profile, that a library has access to only a > section of this journal. We can't do it by title, because a > citation to an article may only have the generic title, without > the section- this is the preferred citation style at AGU. It > seems that the only reliable way to do it would be to examine the > volume number; this will be a bit messy. > > My questions are > 1. Is it common for libraries to have electronic full-text access > to only some sections of this title? > 2. Are there other cases where journal publishers are adamant > about not having separate ISSNs for sections that are sold > separately? (We have been able to handle (not perfectly, alas) > the sections of American Journal of Physiology, which had ISSN > confusion issues in the 70's.) > 3. Is there any formal guidance about this practice in the ISSN > world? > > I've been corresponding with the AGU on this, and I'd be > interested to here what serialists in libraries think about it. > > Eric > -- > > Eric Hellman, President Openly > Informatics, Inc. > eric@openly.com 2 Broad St., > 2nd Floor > tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ > 07003 > http://www.openly.com/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything