Could 'get data' by issn field - very useful for whole journal category

[ssu-readinglists]

catalogue title pull in from ISSN and link?

[ssu-readinglists]

could we enter ISSN and get data from primo for an entire journal? So enter ISSN and it would pull in Title into Journal Title field - sfx links would then work automatically from here.

For printed journal, would need to override and include a link to the catalogue - see hardcopy links in #16

This would be done in the generic tab rather than article

[ostephens]

This should be a relatively simple enhancement

[ostephens]

This is now an option - please test

[museli]

Tested on MyCourse beta on 28th February, 2014. Data for journals is pulled in, but there are a few problems:

• reference type defaults to 'Journal, Article' as a reference type, but it should be 'Generic'. We do not have 'Journal, Whole' as an option (and I'm not sure that we can due to RefWorks constraints?).
• depending on whether the journal is electronic or print, you either have to include or not include the hyphen within the ISSN in order to get the correct result (due to the different ways ISSNs are stored in Primo and SFX) - could we explore code-based ways round this?
• the URL for electronic journals should be pointed at SFX, not Primo. If it must be pointed at Primo, could it default to the viewOnline tab for electronic journals and the Locations tab for print?
• is it possible to remove the Dewey information from the notes for print journals?

[ostephens]

1. Can you confirm when someone does an ISSN search you want the reference type to be set to 'Generic'? (I think the question here is whether the ISSN is used to retrieve journal details which then are used as the basis for a journal article reference, or whether it is just a journal listing)
2. I can add code to search for ISSN as entered and if no result search for the alternative (add or remove hyphen) version - does that sound OK? Can you give an example of an ISSN search with and without hyphen that works (i.e. working example of each)?
3. Can you give me an example SFX URL for a journal? I can use this as a template for the link
4. Can you provide an example where Dewey information appears so I can check where it's coming from and catch it?

[museli]

Hello Owen,

1. We don't use ISSN to look up articles, so it is more appropriate to map the ISSN lookup to the recommended fields for a journal title... which has to be stored as a 'Generic' reference type because there is no journal title type (so far as we can see). So, yes, the default reference type for an ISSN search should be 'Generic'.
2. See issue #74
3. See issue #74
4. British journal of criminology, 00070955. This is what we get in the Notes field in MyReferences: Location: JOURNAL ; 364 BRI ; MOU Floor 0A, Criminology Journals. It would be good to keep the floor information, the sublibrary and the fact that it is a journal, but lose the Dewey number.

[museli]

Hello Owen,

It looks like we are using lds07 to display location data? The component parts don't appear to be available in discrete fields (but I am looking at the PNX within Primo, not as delivered by the API, so that may be different), but they do appear to be properly delimited in the availlibrary field, so that could be an option.

An alternative for print journals might be lds04, which just appears to hold the floor information.

When we reply to #16 with the mapping of item type to note, we'll include which location details we'd like to be shown as well.