[ILL-L] Searching by ISSN in Firstsearch

[Document Delivery]

I've been using the standard number field for ISSN and ISBN searches
since one can tab to it, and it's been OK. Thanks for the info. on how
it works, Ed. 


Edward Helmrich
ILL Office
Ryan Library
Iona College VXI
914-633-2352 
docdelivery at iona.edu

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Subject: [ILL-L] Searching by ISSN in Firstsearch

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)



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