Publisher Element Help

Definition

The name of the publisher of the described item.

Form Element

In the online templates, this element appears as below:

This form element allows the user to enter the publisher name and associate up to three locations with this publisher.

The Simplified Publisher is an alternate form to input this information, although this version is generally preferred.

Best Practices

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Examples

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SobekCM / MODS Encoding

This data is encoded in both the MODS section and the custom SobekCM bibliographic description section. This data is double encoded like this since the simple publisher field in the MODS schema does not allow place terms to be associated with them directly. In the MODS section, this is a subelement of the main originInfo tag.

<sobekcm:Publisher>
    <sobekcm:Name>McLoughlin Bros.</sobekcm:Name>
    <sobekcm:PlaceTerm type="text">New York</sobekcm:PlaceTerm>
    <sobekcm:PlaceTerm type="text">Orlando</sobekcm:PlaceTerm>
</sobekcm:Publisher>

<mods:originInfo>
    <mods:publisher>McLoughlin Bros.</mods:publisher>
</mods:originInfo>


<sobekcm:Publisher>
    <sobekcm:Name>W. Nicholson and Sons</sobekcm:Name>
    <sobekcm:PlaceTerm type="text">Wakefield</sobekcm:PlaceTerm>
</sobekcm:Publisher>
<sobekcm:Publisher>
    <sobekcm:Name>S.D. Ewins & Co.</sobekcm:Name>
    <sobekcm:PlaceTerm type="text">London</sobekcm:PlaceTerm>
</sobekcm:Publisher>
<sobekcm:Publisher>
    <sobekcm:Name>Simpkin, Marshall & Co.</sobekcm:Name>
</sobekcm:Publisher>

<mods:originInfo>
    <mods:publisher>W. Nicholson and Sons</mods:publisher>
    <mods:publisher>S.D. Ewins & Co. :</mods:publisher>
    <mods:publisher>Simpkin, Marshall & Co.</mods:publisher>
</mods:originInfo>

If the publisher has no name listed, but does have a place associated with them, this only appears in the SobekCM bibliographic description section and is not included in the MODS.

<sobekcm:Publisher>
    <sobekcm:Name>[s.n.]</sobekcm:Name>
    <sobekcm:PlaceTerm type="text">Amsterdam</sobekcm:PlaceTerm>
</sobekcm:Publisher>

Metadata Mapping

MARC to MODS Mapping

The publisher information maps from the following subfields of the MARC 260 field:

• |a → publisher place(s)
• |b → publisher name

Multiple publishers can map from a single MARC 260 field.

MODS to MARC Mapping

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