Re: Opinions requested on Journal of geophysical research ISSN practice Michael, James 30 Sep 2005 20:14 UTC
As chance would have it, this week I finished cataloging online versions of 13 of the American Geophysical Union journals for our libraries. I say 13 titles; in fact there were 6 titles plus the Journal of geophysical research with its 7 sections. (Fortunately, our libraries have chosen to purchase access to all sections of JGR, or I'd have had additional problems). I was able to find (and export) OCLC records for 6 of the JGR sections, and had to create a new record for the 7th one, which began publication only this year. On AGU journals's web page (http://www.agu.org/journals/) all of their journal publications are listed. Each section of JGR is prominently shown as if they are separate titles. My difficulty arose because of the fact that USF links from our OPAC through SFX to the online resource. Because SFX is pretty much ISSN driven, it has only a SINGLE record for the JGR--for ALL sections. This SFX record, then, of necessity, has to link to the journal web page (http://www.agu.org/journals/) rather than directly to the individual sections/titles. This means that after arriving at the AGU journal's web page, the user still has to scroll down to find their title and do some more clicking. Had there been an ISSN for each section, and SFX records for each individual section, it would have simplified the cataloging and access, and made things simpler for the user.... James Michael Electronic Resources Cataloger University of South Florida - Tampa Library 4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB 122 Tampa, Fla. 33620 813-974-2453 (suncom 574-2453) -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:25 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Opinions requested on Journal of geophysical research ISSN practice 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