Date:         Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:56:12 -0500
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From:         "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: genres and governments records
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As I suggested before, we could establish a list of values for citations
to be used in MODS <genre> if Bruce wants to provide them. Alternatively
we might consider the genres listed in the proposed OpenURL standard (we
would establish as a source to be used with MODS genre and perhaps MARC
655). They are:

Journal
Issue
Article
Conference
Proceeding
Preprint
Book
Book item
Report
Document
Dissertation
Patent

For further information see:
http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/StandardDocuments/KEV_Guidelines-20031112.pdf
(which is listed at  http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Standard.htm)

(Thanks to Caroline Arms at LC for bringing this to my attention.)

Rebecca

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2003, at 7:51 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> > The "academic journal" is one of those for me
> > -- as far as I'm concerned a journal is a journal, and I can't figure
> > out how you'd draw the line between academic and non-academic
>
> IIRC, this was Rebecca's suggestion way back, and probably comes out of
> an attempt to distinguish it from, say, a "legal journal" or maybe a
> personal journal.
>
> I don't much care myself.  I'm just looking for an unambiguous way to
> make clear that a record represents a journal article.
>
> Let's see, there are officially-sanctioned genre values for book and
> newspaper, so I can clearly code also newspaper articles and book
> chapter.
>
> There's nothing equivalent for either magazine or journal articles.
> While recognizing your genres-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder point, it
> seems to me these are more "useful" than, for example, "font" or
> "game."
>
> Bruce
>