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Value |
Description |
Notes |
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ABR |
Abridged |
Content has been shortened: use for abridged, shortened, concise, condensed. |
ACT |
Acting edtion |
Version of a play or script intended for use of those directly involved in a production, usually including full stage directions
in addition to the text of the script.
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ADP |
Adapted |
Content has been adapted to serve a different purpose or audience, or from one medium to another: use for dramatization, novelization
etc. Use <EditionStatement> to describe the exact nature of the adaptation.
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ALT |
Alternate |
Do not use. This code is now DEPRECATED, but is retained in the list for reasons of backwards compatibility. |
ANN |
Annotated |
Content is augmented by the addition of notes. |
BLL |
Bilingual edition |
Both languages should be specified in the ‘Language’ group. Use MLL for an edition in more than two languages. |
BRL |
Braille |
Braille edition. |
CMB |
Combined volume |
An edition in which two or more works also published separately are combined in a single volume; AKA ‘omnibus’ edition. |
CRI |
Critical |
Content includes critical commentary on the text. |
CSP |
Coursepack |
Content was compiled for a specified educational course. |
DGO |
Digital original |
A digital product which has no print counterpart and is not expected to have a print counterpart. |
ENH |
Enhanced |
Use for e-publications that have been enhanced with additional text, speech, other audio, video, interactive or other content. |
ENL |
Enlarged |
Content has been enlarged or expanded from that of a previous edition. |
EXP |
Expurgated |
‘Offensive’ content has been removed. |
FAC |
Facsimile |
Exact reproduction of the content and format of a previous edition. |
FST |
Festschrift |
A collection of writings published in honor of a person, an institution or a society. |
ILL |
Illustrated |
Content includes extensive illustrations which are not part of other editions. |
LTE |
Large type / large print |
Large print edition, print sizes 14 to 19 pt – see also ULP. |
MCP |
Microprint |
A printed edition in a type size too small to be read without a magnifying glass. |
MDT |
Media tie-in |
An edition published to coincide with the release of a film, TV program, or electronic game based on the same work. Use <EditionStatement>
to describe the exact nature of the tie-in.
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MLL |
Multilingual edition |
All languages should be specified in the ‘Language’ group. Use BLL for a bilingual edition. |
NED |
New edition |
Where no other information is given, or no other coded type is applicable. |
NUM |
Edition with numbered copies |
A limited edition in which each copy is individually numbered. |
PRB |
Prebound edition |
In the US, a book that was previously bound, normally as a paperback, and has been rebound with a library-quality hardcover
binding by a supplier other than the original publisher. See also the <Publisher> and <RelatedProduct> composites for other
aspects of the treatment of prebound editions in ONIX.
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REV |
Revised |
Content has been revised from that of a previous edition. |
SCH |
School edition |
An edition intended specifically for use in schools. |
SMP |
Simplified language edition |
An edition that uses simplified language (Finnish ‘Selkokirja’). |
SPE |
Special edition |
Use for anniversary, collectors’, de luxe, gift, limited, numbered, autographed edition. Use <EditionStatement> to describe
the exact nature of the special edition.
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STU |
Student edition |
Where a text is available in both student and teacher’s editions. |
TCH |
Teacher’s edition |
Where a text is available in both student and teacher’s editions; use also for instructor’s or leader’s editions. |
UBR |
Unabridged |
Where a title has also been published in an abridged edition; also for audiobooks, regardless of whether an abridged audio
version also exists.
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ULP |
Ultra large print |
For print sizes 20pt and above, and with typefaces designed for the visually impaired – see also LTE. |
UXP |
Unexpurgated |
Content previously considered ‘offensive’ has been restored. |
VAR |
Variorum |
Content includes notes by various commentators, and/or includes and compares several variant texts of the same work. |
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