Publication Date Element Help

Definition

The publication date of the resource. Publication 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 publication date.

Best Practices

The best practice for entering the publication date for monographs is to enter the full 4-digit year. If the publication date 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.

For items like newspapers or other frequently published materials, a more specific publication date may be provided in Month Date, Year format: August 20, 2009.

Examples

The following are examples of well formatted publication dates:

• 2001
• c1907
• August 20, 2009

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 date of publication maps from:

• 260 |c → date issued
• 008 → date issued (marc encoding)
• 250 → edition
• 310 → frequency
• 321 → frequency
• 008 → frequency ( authority = marcfrequency )

MODS to MARC Mapping

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

Sources

1. MODS User Guidelines Version 3, Detailed Description of MODS Elements
2. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data

Contributors

Nicola Hill, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor

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