Part I. C.

Publishers

If all other elements of the record match the piece:

1. Single publisher

   • If the publisher is the same, even if the degree of fullness of the name varies (e.g., Wiley vs. John Wiley & Sons), the record is a match.

     E.g.      T.p.:  Duchy of Grand Fenwick, Ministry of Propaganda, Department of Garbled Memos

                 If everything else matches, a record with 260 $b Dept. of Garbled Memos, Duchy of
     

                 Grand Fenwick can be used.

     E.g.      T.p.:  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]

                 P. facing t.p.:  Centro de Investigaciones sobre Estados Unidos de América

                 If everything else matches, a record with 260 $b UNAM can be used.

   • If the publisher is different, the record is not a match.  Be careful to distinguish between different forms of the same name and a publisher name change.  Differences in the name that reflect a publisher name change (e.g., Harcourt, Brace & World vs. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) or a difference in the country in which the firm is located (e.g., Plaza & Janés vs. Plaza & Janés Colombia) prevent a match.

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2. Multiple publishers

   If either the record or the item include multiple publishers, as long as one of the publishers is present in both the item and the record, you may treat the record as a match.  This applies whether the body appears in the 260 $b field as a publisher or in the 260 $f field as a printer.  (Cf. Part II.B.1, on editing when additional publishers are involved.)

   E.g.      T.p.:  Clarendon Press

               T.p. verso:  Oxford University Press

               260 $a Oxford ; $a New York : $b Oxford University Press ...

               This record may be a match.

   Along the same lines, if a name appearing on the title page is identified as -- or is known to be -- "an imprint of" another publisher, a record with either entity in the 260 field may be a match (cf. Part II.B.1, example with imprint of another publisher).  There is often some ambiguity whether the name on the title page is a publisher or a series or quoted note.

   E.g.      T.p.:  Verso

               T.p. verso:  Verso Books is an imprint of New Left Books.

               Either a record with Verso Books or one with New Left Books in the 260 field may be a match.

   E.g.      T.p.:  Modern Library

               T.p. verso:  Random House

               Either a record with Modern Library or one with Random House in the 260 field may be a match.

   Please note:  It is important to be sure that other factors do not prevent a match in cases of multiple publishers.  There are instances in which the publisher of one edition will actually appear in an item of a different edition; there should be other clues that the editions are not the same.

   One category of this situation is that of reprint editions in which the original publisher appears prominently while the reprint publisher appears in an obscure location and/or in small print.

   E.g.      T.p.:  London / Macmillan and Co. / 1884

               T.p. verso, in small letters: Republished in 1972 by Gregg International Publishers Limited ...

               A record with Macmillan as publisher could not be used, as it would be the record for the
   

               original edition, not this reprint edition.

   A trickier category is represented by items not published by known reprint publishers that contain prominent "ghosts" of information from a previous edition.

   E.g.      T.p., at the bottom:  Robert Laffont

               T.p. verso:  cEditions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris, 1991

               P. facing t.p.:  [list of other works by the same author published by Presses pocket]

               Colophon:  Presses pocket ... Paris; Achevé d'imprimer [printed] en décembre 1992

               Back cover:  Egalement chez Presses pocket: ...

               There is a record online with 260 $a Paris : $b R. Laffont, $c c1991.  The pagination, series, size,

               and the publisher portion of the ISBN in that record do not match the piece (there is a 6

               centimeter difference in size).  Therefore, even though all elements of the record's imprint are

               present somewhere in the piece, the record cannot be a match.  The item should be catalogued

               as a 1992 publication by Presses pocket.

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3. Missing publishers

   The lack of a publisher in the piece or the record does not prevent a match if all other elements match.  (Cf. Part II.B.1, on editing when publishers are missing.)

4. Publisher on label

   If the publication information in your piece is covered by a label with the name of a different publisher:
   • Prefer a record in which the 260 field information matches the information on the label.

   • If a record with a different publisher in the 260 includes a note about a label with information matching your piece, you may accept it.

   • If there is a record with a publisher that corresponds to one underneath the label in your piece (or identified elsewhere in the piece), but the publisher on the label does not appear in the record, the record is not a match.  If there is no record that fits either of the two criteria above, a new record needs to be input.

   (Cf. Part II, introduction, on editing information from labels.)