JoAnne,

  Elsevier has a "Section Finder" at
http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/29/50/show/ where you can enter the volume
number and get the section. Locally, we have created a "decoder" chart
which our patrons can use to relate volumes with sections. We manually
update this about once a month. You can view our chart at
http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/disc/bba2.html and see if it's of any help to you.

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At 12/1/2003 07:47 AM, you wrote:
>Hi, all
>Does anyone know of a way to make it easier for patrons to match their
>Medline citations to the proper subset of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
>online? If you have this journal online you know there are numerous
>sections (about 15-16) with an individual link for each section. The
>citations they get from Medline however will just say Vol:Issue and not
>indicate that they are part of (for example) BBA Biomembranes, so
>patrons don't know which BBA link will lead them to the proper online
>section. This was all fine when BBA was in paper because the section
>titles were printed on the spine, but it is causing much confusion in an
>online world.
>
>Has anyone contacted NLM about what appears to be an indexing problem?
>Or Elsevier? To make it more of a nightmare, the volumes do not run
>consecutively. For ex. BBA Biomembranes includes vols. 1551-1560 and
>then it skips to vols. 1604-1607.
>
>Thanks for any insights.
>JoAnne Griffin
>Serials Librarian
>Tufts University Health Sciences Library
>Boston, MA