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
> --
>
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