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Re: BBA Online JoAnne Griffin 05 Dec 2003 21:14 UTC

Dear Adolfo
Thanks so much for your reply. I had no idea that there was such a thing as a
section finder. Thanks also for your generous offer to use your chart.

Have a great weekend,
JoAnne

Adolfo Tarango wrote:

> 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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>    Head, Serials Cataloging & CJK Division
>    UCSD Libraries, Catalog Department 0175K
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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