Place of Publication Element Help

Definition

The place of publication refers to the geographic location of the publisher or the location where the material was created.

Form Element

In the online templates, this element appears as below:

This element allows the place of publication to be entered, while not linking it to an individual publisher. Another possible template element that does link this to the puvlisher is the Publisher Element.

Best Practices

The place of publication information is generally found with publisher information on the title page of physical items.

For large cities, only the city name is necessary; for smaller, less well-known cities, like Gainesville, state or country information should be included as well.

Examples

Paris
Gainesville, Fla.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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 place of publication maps from:

260 |a → place published

MODS to MARC Mapping

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

Sources

Contributors

Nicola Hill, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor

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