Copyright Year Element Help

Definition

The copyright year is the year associated with the creation of the resource for copyright purposes, often the published date. Copyright date is a subelement of OriginInfo, which is a larger element that contains information about the origin of the resource, including place of origin or publication, publisher/originator, and associated dates.

Form Element

In the online templates, this element appears as below:

This form element allows the user to enter the copyright year.

Best Practices

The best practice for entering the copyright year is to enter the full 4-digit year. If the copyright year is uncertain, this can be indicated by using the abbreviation "c" for circa, or by entering a likely range of dates; other abbreviations, brackets, or question marks should not be used.

Quite often, the copyright year is the same as the publication year.

SobekCM / MODS Encoding

<mods:originInfo>
    <mods:publisher>Published for American Vacuum Society by American Institute of Physics</mods:publisher>
    <mods:publisher>University of Florida Press House</mods:publisher>
    <mods:place>
        <mods:placeTerm type="text">New York</mods:placeTerm>
        <mods:placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">nyu</mods:placeTerm>
        <mods:placeTerm type="code" authority="iso3166">usa</mods:placeTerm>
    </mods:place>
    <mods:place>
        <mods:placeTerm type="text">Gainesville, Florida</mods:placeTerm>
    </mods:place>
    <mods:dateIssued>1992</mods:dateIssued>
    <mods:dateIssued encoding="marc" point="start">1992</mods:dateIssued>
    <mods:dateIssued encoding="marc" point="end">1993</mods:dateIssued>
    <mods:copyrightDate>1999</mods:copyrightDate>
    <mods:edition>Second Edition</mods:edition>
</mods:originInfo>

Metadata Mapping

MARC to MODS Mapping

The copyright year information maps from:

• 260 |c → date issued
• 008 → date issued (marc encoding)

MODS to MARC Mapping

Mapping from the MODS back to MARC is the reverse of the procedure listed above.

Contributors

Nicola Hill, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor

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