[ILL-L] Searching by ISSN in Firstsearch

[STEPHENS_JA at Mercer.edu]

Maybe I'm going crazy, but searching by ISSN in firstsearch doesn't seem to be 
working the way it used to.  If I select ISSN as the search term and put in a 
print ISSN, I get only print results, and only electronic results for an 
electronic ISSN.  If I select just standard number rather than ISSN 
specifically, then I'll get both, plus everything else than has the ISSN 
anywhere in the standard number field (such as series ISSN.)  Now before when 
I selected ISSN and put in either a print or electronic ISSN number, I got the 
results for both (well, and microfilm/fiche etc too) without a lot of 
supplemental entries.  Am I just missing something obvious here?  It seems 
like before I was getting results that, for my purposes, were what I wanted: 
results with either that ISSN or that number in the "Other Format's ISSN" 
field.  Now I can get either just a strict ISSN match, or a match to entries 
with that number anywhere in the standard number field.

John Stephens
Mercer University - Atlanta (GMA)