COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BOctober2022

102 Country of publication or production

This field contains codes for one or more countries of publication or production of the item.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
102Country of publication or productionnr
aCountryr
bLocality of publicationr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

102a Country

Contains a three-character code representing the country in which the item was published or produced. The codes are to be entered according to ISO 3166. The present state of country borders (the codes of present countries) is considered no matter when an item was published. Repeatable if an item is published in more than one country or in more than one locality in the same country.

There is also the code "int" – international organisation included in the code list. The code appears in the process of downloading records from the ISSN database. It is contained in records for serials published by international organisations.

102b Locality of publication

A two-character code representing the locality where the item was published. Repeatable if there is more than one locality. The following codes are used:

brBrčko District
crMontenegro**
csCentral Serbia
fbFederacija BiH
koKosovo**
rsRepublika Srpska
srSerbia**
vjVojvodina

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

Any subfield b should follow immediately after the subfield a to which it refers. It is recommended that a code be recorded for each place of publication or production present in the field 210.

Due to the fact that in older monographic publications the name and location of the printer are given equal status to those of the publisher or distributor, the country and locality of a printer, publisher or distributor is given here in a coded form. For older monographic publications the country of locality of publication or production is coded according to the present state of country borders.

In subfield 102a the code "xxx" – country unknown is entered (see example 6), when country cannot be defined.

RELATED FIELDS

210PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
This field carries the place of publication or production in a textual form.
620PLACE ACCESS
This field carries the place of publication or production in structured textual form.

EXAMPLES

  1. 102⊔⊔ahun
    (The item is published in Hungary.)
  2. 102⊔⊔aita
    (The item was published in Venice in 1485.)
  3. *

    102⊔⊔asrb bvj
    (The item is published in Vojvodina.)
  4. * COBISS.net

    102⊔⊔abih bfb
    (The item is published in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)
  5. *

    102⊔⊔asvn
    210⊔⊔a[Slovenija] cCreativ d2000-
    (The publication was published in Slovenia. Since the place of publication is unknown, enter the broader geographic area in subfield 210a.)
  6. *

    102⊔⊔axxx
    210⊔⊔a[S. l.] cWulfenia Journal d[2012]-
    (The place and the country of publication are unknown.)