Brandy,

The fault may not be in your Serials Solutions records but how your system is creating its browse (headings) indexes.  An area you might explore.

Maggie Horn

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of jianxin9
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:52 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Retrieving serials solutions records in the OPAC

Hi everyone,

I was curious if those of you who use Serials Solutions records have had this problem.  When there is a subfield "b" in the 245 field, and the patron searches the whole title (for example "Health Services Management Research: An Official Journal...." seen below), the title will not come up because of the "electronic resource" note in the "h" subfield.  So basically the patron needs to search "Health services management research" in order to retrieve the title.  Has this been a problem for anyone?  How have you handled it? Have you requested that serials solutions remove the subfield "h" or add a 246 variant title field that doesn't contain the "h" subfield?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you so much.  Please feel free to respond to me off-list at bklug@mail.twu.edu

‡a Health services management research ‡h [electronic resource] : ‡b an official journal of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration / ‡c HSMC, AUPHA.

Brandy Klug
Texas Woman's University Library
Denton, TX 76205
940-898-3776
bklug@mail.twu.edu