COMARC/B Format for Bibliographic Data

PDFCOMARC/BJune2006

530 Key title

This field contains the key title – the unique title assigned to continuing resources by the ISSN Centre.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
530Key titlenr
aKey titlenr
bQualifiernr

Indicators

INDICATORVALUEMEANING
1Title proper indicator
0Key title is the same as the title proper
1Key title differs from the title proper
2Not defined

SUBFIELDS

530a Key title

The key title without the addition of any qualification. Up to 2003 they included, for generic titles, the name of the issuing body following a space hyphen space (see examples 3, 4).

530b Qualifier

Any qualification included in the key title in order to distinguish it from other continuing resources with the same title (see examples 2, 4, 6, 8, 9). Within the key title a qualifier is entered in round brackets that are generated automatically.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The key title is formed according to the provisions contained in the ISSN Manual. Cataloguing Part. The key title is established by the National ISSN Centre responsible for the registration of the continuing resource and is derived from the title information appearing in the publication at the time of registration. Since only an ISSN Centre can establish the key title, any agency other than a centre preparing a record should enter a key title only when it is found on the document or when it has been checked with an ISSN Centre.

The indicator 1 specifies whether or not the key title is the same as the title proper in subfield 200a. If field 530 contains subfield b, the value of the indicator is set to "1".

RELATED FIELDS

011ISSN
According to ISSN system rules the key title is inseparably linked to its ISSN and both should be entered in the record when available.
200TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
The title on the item is entered in field 200.

EXAMPLES

  1. 5300⊔aScientific American
  2. 5301⊔a≠La ≠Ciencia y la tecnica bBarcelona. 1936
    (The key title files as: La Ciencia y la tecnica (Barcelona. 1936).)
  3. 5301⊔aAnnual accounts - Welsh Water Authority
  4. 5301⊔aBulletin – Canadian Association of Medical Records Librarians b1944

  5. *

    2001⊔aGeodetska služba
    5300⊔aGeodetska služba
    (Key title is the same as the title proper.)

  6. *

    2001⊔aMost
    5301⊔aMost bZagreb
    (Key title differs from the title proper.)

  7. *

    2001⊔aZnanost & tehnologija eZ & T fMinistrstvo za znanost in tehnologijo
    5300⊔aZnanost & tehnologija

  8. *

    2001⊔aManager erevija za podjetne
    5301⊔aManager bLjubljana

  9. * COBISS.net

    5301⊔aIstorija 20. veka b1959
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