24 – Corporate Author (collection level)

 

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA FIELD:

Variable size

Essential filling Repetitive

 

2. DATA ELEMENT DEFINITION:

Name of the institution responsible for the intellectual content of a document.

 

3. NOTES:

a) If there are more than one responsible institution, their names should be recorded in the sequence given in the document, click on Add. Institutional author;

b) Filling in one of the data fields, Personal author or Institutional author, is mandatory;

c) Record the name of the institution, initially, in the same form as it appears in the document, adding, when necessary, the name of the hierarchically superior institution. Some basic rules for filling in the institutional author based on AACR2 can be found in ANNEX II.

 

Degree of responsibility

a) Indicate the degree of responsibility when it is not that of author;

b) Only one degree of responsibility is recorded for each author;

c) Select the degree of responsibility in the attribute r:, using one of the following options:

Description Code
Editor r: edt
Compiler r: com
Coordinator r: coord
Organizer r: org

For special materials, the list of degrees of responsibility can be expanded using the abbreviations used by the Library of Congress, which are found in Annex VIII.

 

4. EXAMPLES:

a) Federal University of São Paulo. Paulista School of Medicine. Department of Pediatrics

b) UNESCO

Pan American Health Organization

c) Brazil. Ministry of Health r: edt

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