ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015

8 Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Set, version 1.1 • 8.5 Attributes

8.5.90 @pub-type Type of Publication

Deprecated: On the element <pub-date>, in the Archiving and Publishing Tag Sets, this @pub-type attribute is deprecated in favor of the @publication-format and @date-type attributes. In all Tag Sets, on the element <issn>, this @pub-type attribute is deprecated in favor of the @publication-format attribute (possibly with the @content-type attribute). Using two attributes enables the expression of both the format/medium and the lifecycle type of the publication instead of forcing the selection of one or the other.

Definition: Deprecated pre-combination of the format/medium of a document with one or more events from its lifecycle, for example, epub for publication in an electronic format or ppub for publication in print.

The pre-combination of format, medium, and event in one attribute is a holdover from previous versions of this Tag Set. In this version of this Tag Set, there are two attributes that can be used to describe the history dates and publication dates of articles. The @date-type attribute records the type of event in the lifecycle, such as accepted, published, or revised dates. In addition, the @publication-format attribute records the type of format or media to which the event happened, such as print. In previous versions of this Tag Set, the two types of information were combined, so an attribute could say that an article was ecorrected, meaning that the article was in electronic form and that it was corrected. In this Tag Set, the attribute @date-type would take the value corrected and the @publication-format attribute would take the value electronic to convey the same information.

In elements <issn> and <pub-date>, this attribute may be used if the element is used.
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters The type of print or electronic publication, for example, epub for electronic publication.