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Subject: Arthritis Care & Research
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:35:36 -0500
From: Bridget Clancy <Bridget.Clancy@mail.tju.edu>

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping that you can help me untangle something. This message will
likely be confusing, I'll try to keep it as clear as possible.

Currently we have these journal issues:

1.  _Arthritis Care and Research_ v. 13, no. 6 December 2000, published
for
the American College of Rheumatology by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins;

2.  _Arthritis & Rheumatism_ v. 44, no. 2 February 2001, published for
the
American College of Rheumatology by Wiley Interscience;

3.  _Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis Care & Research) v. 45 no. 1
February
2001, published for the American College of Rheumatology by Wiley
Interscience.

>>From v. 45, no. 1 February 2001 (item #3):
"Arthritis & Rheumatism (Print ISSN 0004-3591; online ISSN 1529-0131
...),
is published monthly, along with Arthritis Care and Research semimonthly
in
February, April, June, August, October, and December ..."

In _Arthritis Care & Research_ v. 13, no. 6 December 2000 (item #!),
there
is an editorial explaining the changes (and I use the term "explaining"
loosely!), and it states:
"Citations of articles in _Arthritis & Rheumatism_ will remain as they
are
now, but citations of articles in _Arthritis Care & Research_ will be
altered to the following style:  Author. Title. _Arthritis Rheum
(Arthritis
Care Res)_ year; volume: pages."

>>From what I can gather from looking at these 3 items, item #3 has become a
section of item #2, and has taken on its numbering.  So now we have only
two
titles:

Arthritis & Rheumatism v. 44, etc.; and,
Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis Care & Research) v. 45, etc.

As a result, the record for _Arthritis Care & Research_ (item #1 above),
should be closed out with the December volume, with the appropriate
link,
and a note to the effect that it became a section of _Arthritis &
Rheumatism_ and took on its numbering;

The record for _Arthritis & Rheumatism_ should have the appropriate link
to
the section title, with a note stating that item #3 is now a section of
the
journal, with corresponding volume numbering;

A new record should be created for _Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis
Care &
Research), beginning with v. 45 no. 1 February 2001, and any links and
notes
to clarify things should be included.

If you have read this far (!), tell me, is this the approach you would
take?
The other staff here finds it confusing, and cannot believe that my
interpretation is correct.

Any advice, corrections, encouragement, etc. would be appreciated.  Feel
free to contact me off-list, I can summarize later.

Thanks,

Bridget

Bridget Arthur Clancy
Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian
Scott Memorial Library
Thomas Jefferson University
1020 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA  19107-5587
(215) 503-8406
Bridget.Clancy@mail.tju.edu