Average Date of Publication Report

The Average Date of Publication (Averagepubyr) report provides statistical information about items based on the publication year. The publication year is from the DATE1 element of the fixed field 008, if present. If the program does not find a publication date there, it checks the 264|c field (if the second indicator is set to 1) and then the 260|c field. If no date is found, then each tag in the record with a data entry type of publication date is checked. The first non-empty tag with an entry type of publication date will be used for the publication date. If all tags with an entry type of publication date are empty, then the publication date field of the item will be empty.

You may make selections in the reports interface to target specific libraries or subsets of the collection. The report automatically selects only publication years greater than zero. Only call numbers with copies are selected, by default.

The Average Date of Publication report contains the following tabs.

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Basic Tab: Reports

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Title Selection Tab

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Call Number Selection Tab

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Item Selection Tab

This report is on the Bibliographic tab of reports.