Date: 20 May 1993 10:04:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: kingsley@GW.WMICH.EDU
Subject: ISSNs: Uh-oh

The reply from Regina Reynolds at NSDP about ISSN's for various
formats is much appreciated. It is a wake-up call to think about
how the separate ISSN's are going to effect hooks-to-holdings.
While we are eagerly looking forward to BRS introducing this
function in a future version (we use BRS software for searching
our locally tape-loaded indexes such as ABI/Inform and ERIC/CIJE)
some of you using MDAS with your NOTIS systems must be starting
to run into some of these complications. If the citations in an
online index such as ABI/Inform contain only the ISSN for the
hardcopy, the citations will only link to that format in your
bibliographic record. But we have full-text journals in micro.
cartridge (IAC's Magazine Collection and Business Collection)
and on Business Periodicals Ondisc. I don't think the IAC
titles qualify as reproductions, since they are not complete
versions.  We have cataloged those titles, but future ones
added to the collection may have separate ISSN's and won't
hook.  We are thinking about cataloging all those BPO titles
too: guess we should think about adding the "wrong" ISSN
(hardcopy) to any BPO titles when we catalog.

Marcie Kingsley
Head, Acquisitions
Western Michigan University