COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BJune2004

211 Projected publication date

This field contains the projected date of publication of an item. The field is used for CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) entries and similar advance records created from information provided by the publisher.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
211Projected publication datenr
aDatenr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

211a Date

The date should be entered in all numeric form withour separators between year, month, and day, i.e.YYYYMMDD. YYYY indicates year, MM indicates month, and DD day. Where day and month are unknown, those positions contains blanks.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

If a record contains a field 211, there must be the code "p" or "i" entered in subfield 001a. This is a temporary field, to be deleted when the record is updated (see examples 1, 2).

RELATED FIELDS

001aRECORD LABEL, Record status
A subfield 001a contains code indicating record status.
210dPUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC., Date of publication, distribution, etc.
A subfield 210d contains a publication date.

EXAMPLES

  1. 001⊔⊔ap
    210⊔⊔aLondon cFaber d1999
    211⊔⊔a199911⊔⊔
    (A CIP record for a work scheduled to be published in November 1999.)
    001⊔⊔an
    210⊔⊔aLondon cFaber d1999
    (The field 211 is deleted when the updated record for the work is issued after publication.)
  2. 001⊔⊔ap
    210⊔⊔aNew York cMacmillian d1999
    211⊔⊔a199912⊔⊔
    (A CIP record for a work scheduled to be published in December 1999.)
    001⊔⊔an
    210⊔⊔aNew York cMacmillian d2000
    (An updated record for a publication issued with delay. The field 211 is deleted.)

  3. *

    001⊔⊔ap
    210⊔⊔aLjubljana cKres d2003
    211⊔⊔a200312⊔⊔
    (A CIP record for a work scheduled to be published in December 2003. The field 211 is deleted when the updated record for the work is issued after publication.)
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