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HandPressBook

New 9/17/2007

Database name:  HandPressBook  
Short database name:  HPBK
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Available only from OCLC, this resource integrates descriptive records for major European national, university and research library holdings.
  • Valuable for research in intellectual history, social history, transmission of thought, and the history of printing and the history of the book.
  • An essential resource for anyone interested in Europe's multilingual print culture during the "hand-press" period.
  • Includes citations for works in Latin, Middle French, and other archaic languages
Subjects included
Arts and humanities

Coverage/update frequency

Ca. 1455-1830.
Updated at least annually.

Record display information: MARC Fields

The MARC records returned from this database will be the OCLC-MARC records as they were input into the system. This database can have any valid MARC tag in it. Locally defined fields also exist as follows:

Bibliographic Records MARC Fields

Field Name MARC Field(s)
Geographic name subject 691/a
Subordinate unit subdivision 691/b
Form subdivision 691/v
General subdivision 691/x
Chronological subdivision 691/y
Geographical subdivision 691/z
Personal name subject 696/a
Numeration 696/b
Title and other words associated with name 696/c
Date 696/d
Relator 696/e
Form subheading 696/k
Fuller form of the name 696/q
Title 696/t
Institution 696/u
Form subdivision 696/v
General subdivision 696/x
Chronological subdivision 696/y
Geographical subdivision 696/z
Corporate or personal name subject 697/a
Subordinate unit 697/b
Date 697/d
Relator 697/e
Title 697/t
General subdivision 697/x
Chronological subdivision 697/y
Geographical subdivision 697/z
Personal author 796/a
Numeration 796/b
Titles and other words associated with name 796/c
Date 796/d
Fuller form of name 796/q
Relator 796/4
Corporate author 797/a
Subordinate unit 797/b
Author 798/a
Country of holding institution expanded to text for display 852/7
Document type 945/f

Material type code for microform. Values are:

mic Microform
mfl Microfilm
mfc Microfiche
mcd Micro-opaque
mmc Master microform
945/m
Document type used for display 949/i
Display type 949/x
Cataloging source code expanded to text for display 981/h
Country of publication expanded to text for display 981/i

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them. These are grouped by the type of record retrieved.

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Data Source
Keyword (kw:) Any 1016
5110
2 Fields found in the following indexes:
Author keyword
Notes
Subject keyword
Title keyword, and
008 Date 1
008 Date 2
020/a,z
034/a,b,d,e,f,g
052/a and ab combined
255/a,b,c,d,e
Access Method (am:)* OCLC Defined 1209
5856
2 031/u
505/u
506/u
508/u
511/u
514/u
520/u
530/u
538/u
540/u
545/u
552/u
555/u
563/u
583/u
856/u
Cataloging Source (cs:, cs=) OCLC Defined 6119 1, 2 040/a,c
Citation (ci, ci=) OCLC Defined 5940 1, 2 510/a,c
Country of Publication (cp:) OCLC Defined 6104 2 008 Country of publication
044/a,c**
Document Type Phrase (dt=) Code-record-type 1001 1 945/f
Imprint Year (pd:) OCLC Defined 6030 2 260/c,g
Language Phrase (ln=)*** Code-language 54 1 008 Language
041/b,d,e,f,g
041/a if 1st indicator is 0 (zero)
041/2 if 2nd indicator is 7
Notes/Comments (nt:) Note 63 2 500/a
501/a
502/a
504/a
505/a,r,t
508/a
511/a
518/a
520/a,b
521/a
533/a,b,c,d,e,f,n
534/a,t
536/a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h
538/a
545/a
550/a
590/a
753/a,b,c
Place of Publication (pl:, pl=) Name-geographic-place-publication 59 1, 2 260/a,e
261/f
262/a
533/b
752/a,b,c,d
773/d
Publisher (pb:, pb=) Name-publisher 1018 1, 2 260/b,f
261/a,b,e
262/b
533/c
Year of Publication (yr:)* Date-publication 31 2, 4, 5 008 Date 1
046/c
Year 2 of Publication (yy:)* OCLC Defined 5031 2, 4, 5 008 Date 2
046/e

* Additional information on these indexes is given in the Searching Tips below.
** Country codes are indexed as the English term represented by the code.
*** Language is searchable by language code or the English translation of the code. Additional information is given in Restrictors below.

Author Indexes

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Author Keyword (au:) Author-name 1003
5003
2 100/a,b,c,d,j,q,u
110/a,b,c,d,e,n,u
111/a,c,d,e,n,q,u
245/c
505/r
508/a
511/a
550/a
700/a,b,c,d,j,q,u
710/a,b,c,d,e,n
711/a,c,d,e,n,q
720/a
770/a
773/a
780/a
785/a
787/a
790/a,b,c,d,j,q,u
791/a,b,c,d,e,n
792/a,c,d,e,n,q
796/a,b,c,d,j,q,u
797/a,b,c,d,e,n
798/a,c,d,e,n,q
800/a,b,c,d,q,u
810/a,b,c,d,e,n
811/a,c,d,e,n,q
896/a,b,c,d,q,u
897/a,b,c,d,e,n
898/a,c,d,e,n,q
Author Phrase (au=) Author-name 1003
5003
1 100/a,b,c,d,j,q
110/a,b,c,d,n
111/a,c,d,e,n,q
700/a,b,c,d,j,q
710/a,b,c,d,n
711/a,c,d,e,n,q
720/a
790/a,b,c,d,j,q
791/a,b,c,d,n
792/a,c,d,e,n,q
796/a,b,c,d,j,q
797/a,b,c,d,n
798/a,c,d,e,n,q
Corporate and Conference Name (cn:, cn=) Author-name-conference 1005
1006
1, 2 110/a,b,c,d,e,n,u*
111/a,c,d,e,n,q,u
710/a,b,c,d,e,n*
711/a,c,d,e,n,q
791/a,b,c,d,e,n
792/a,c,d,e,n,q
797/a,b,c,d,e,n
798/a,c,d,e,n,q
Personal Name (pn:, pn=) Author-name-personal 1004 1, 2 100/a,b,c,d,j,q,u*
700/a,b,c,d,j,q,u*
790/a,b,c,d,j,q
796/a,b,c,d,j,q

* The 100/u, 110/e,u, 700/u and 710/e are only available in the keyword forms of their respective indexes.

Subject Heading Indexes

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Subject (su:, su=) Subject 21 1, 2 600/a,b,c,d,e,g,j,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
610/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
611/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,q,t,v,x,y,z
630/a,d,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
648/a,v,x,y,z
650/a,b,v,x,y,z
651/a,v,x,y,z
653/a
655/a,b,v,x,y,z
690/a,b,v,x,y,z
691/a,v,x,y,z
696/a,b,c,d,e,g,j,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
697/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
698/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,q,t,v,x,y,z
699/a,d,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v,x,y,z
Subject All Phrase (sa=)* Subject 21 1 Note: Must use completeness attribute 3. Searches the same subject fields as the Subject (21) index above.
Descriptor (de:, de=) OCLC defined 5650 1, 2 600/x
610/x
611/x
630/x
648/x
650/a,b,x
651/x
655/x
690/a,b,x
691/x
696/x
697/x
698/x
699/x
Geographic Coverage (gc:, gc=) Name-geographic 58 1, 2 043/a,c**
600/z
610/z
611/z
630/z
648/z
650/z
651/a, z
655/z
690/z
691/a, z
696/z
697/z
698/z
699/z
Genre (ge:, ge=) OCLC defined 5655 1, 2 600/v
610/v
611/v
630/v
648/v
650/v
651/v
655/a,b,v
690/v
691/v
696/v
697/v
698/v
699/v

* Additional information on these indexes is given in Searching Tips below.
** 043/ac is indexed as the English terms represented by the codes.

Title Indexes

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Related Title (rl:, rl=) OCLC defined 5979 1, 2 760/s,t
762/s,t
765/s,t
767/s,t
770/s,t
772/s,t
773/p,s,t
774/s,t
775/s,t
776/s,t
777/s,t
780/s,t
785/s,t
786/s,t
787/s,t
Title Keyword (ti:) Title 4
1002
5245
2 031/d,t
100/t
110/t
111/t
130/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
210/a
214/a
222/a,b
240/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s
242/a,b,n,p
243/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s
245/a,b,f,g,k,n,p
246/a,b,n,p
247/a,b,n,p
440/a,n,p
490/a
505/t
700/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
710/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
711/g,k,n,p,s,t
730/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
740/a,n,p
770/a,s,t
773/p,s,t
780/s,t
785/s,t
787/s,t
790/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
791/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
792/g,k,n,p,s,t
793/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
796/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
797/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
798/g,k,n,p,s,t
799/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
800/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
810/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
811/g,k,n,p,s,t
830/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v
896/g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
897/d,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
898/g,k,n,p,s,t
899/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v
Title (ti=) Title 4
1002
5245
1 031/d,t
130/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
222/a,b
240/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s
245/a,b,f,g,k,n,p*
246/a,b,n,p
505/t
730/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
740/a,n,p
793/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
799/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
Series (se:, se=) Title-series 5 1, 2 440/a,n,p,v,x
490/a,v,x
533/f
534/f
760/a,s,t,x,y
762/a,s,t,x,y
800/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v
810/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v
811/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,s,t,v
830/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v
896/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,v
897/a,b,c,d,e,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v
898/a,c,d,e,g,k,n,p,s,t,v
899/a,d,f,g,k,m,n,o,p,r,s,t,v

* The Title phrase search has the 245/a and 245/b subfields combined into a single phrase search with structure attribute 1. These subfields (245/a, 245/b) can be searched as separate subfields also.

Number Indexes

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
OCLC Accession Number (no:) Control number-local 12
1211
2 001
019/a
Related Record ID (rr:) OCLC defined 5908 2 760/w
762/w
765/w
767/w
770/w
772/w
773/w
774/w
775/w
776/w
777/w
780/w
785/w
786/w
787/w
Standard Number (sn:) Identifier-standard 1007 1, 2 010/a,b,z
016/a,z
020/a,z
022/a,y,z
024/a
027/a,z
028/a
030/a,z
037/a
088/a
262/c
440/x
490/x
534/x,z
700/x
710/x
711/x
730/x
760/x,y,z
762/x,y,z
770/r,u,x,y,z
773/u,x,y,z
776/x,y,z
780/x,y,z
785/x,y,z
790/x
791/x
792/x
793/x
796/x
797/x
798/x
799/x
System Control Number (sy:) OCLC defined 5028 2 035/a

Holdings Indexes

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Country of Holding Institution (hp:) OCLC defined 5978 2 852/n*
General Call Number (nu:, nu=) OCLC defined 5017 1, 2 852/h,i,j
Institution and Location of Holding (lh:, lh=) OCLC defined 5966 1, 2 852/a,b,e

* 852/n is indexed as the English terms represented by the codes.

Restrictors*

The following restrictors should be combined with search strings in the Hand Press Book database (using the Boolean operators AND or NOT) in cases where the search results would otherwise be too large and unmanageable.

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribute
Cataloging Source (cs:, cs=) No limit
Contributing library

See Searching Tips below for a list of library names
6119 1, 2
Document Type Phrase (dt=) No limit
Analytic
Book
Map
Score
Serial
Visual material

ana
bks
map
sco
ser
vis
1001 1
Language Phrase (l=) No Limit
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Latin

dutch
english
french
german
italian
latin
54 1
Year of Publication No limit
Single year
Range of years

1755
1867-1830
31 5

* All of the restrictors are both indexes and restrictors.

Sorting

Search results in the Hand Press Book database can be sorted by Author (1003) and Title (4).

General punctuation rules

Omit accent marks and diacritics such as ¨ (umlaut) and ¸ (cedilla). Special characters should be replaced by a Romanized form of the character, such as u for hooked u and ss for ß (eszett).

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" (quote) Convert to a blank @ (commercial at) Convert to a blank
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse or
Convert to a blank
? (question mark) Convert to a blank
. (period) Convert to a blank, except when the first period in a class number search. / (slash) Convert to a blank except in Dewey call number search where it is deleted and collapsed.
, (comma) Convert to a blank - (hyphen) Convert to a blank
; (semicolon) Convert to a blank & (ampersand) Retain and index
: (colon) Convert to a blank \ (backslash) Convert to a blank
() (parentheses) Delete and collapse © (copyright sign) Delete and collapse
<> (greater/less than signs) Convert to a blank ° (degree sign) Delete and collapse
{} (curly brackets) Convert to a blank € (Euro) Convert to a blank
[] (square brackets) Delete and collapse, retaining the data within except for [sic] and [i.e. any data following] Flat (musical) Convert to a blank
= (equal sign) Convert to a blank ¡ (inverted exclamation point) Convert to a blank
! (exclamation point) Convert to a blank ¿ (inverted question mark) Convert to a blank
# (number sign) Delete and collapse Phonograph copyright Delete and collapse
$ (dollar sign) Convert to a blank # (sharp —musical) Convert to a blank
% (percent sign) Convert to a blank Space Convert multiple spaces to a single space
* (asterisk) Convert to a blank ± (plus/minus sign) Convert to a blank
+ (plus sign) Convert to a blank _ (underscore) Convert to a blank

Stopwords

The Hand Press Book database has no stopwords.

Searching Tips

Access Method

The characters between the punctuation in the URL are the "words" that are searched for. For example, http://www.oclc.org is searched by the "words" www, oclc, and org. The most distinct term in the string is the most useful on which to search. The "http" or "https" is not indexed.

Cataloging Source Index

The following institutions are contributing libraries:

Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München)
Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München) VD 16
The British Library 17th Century German Catalogue (K17), London
The British Library Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC), London
Cathedral Libraries Catalogue, UK
GBV Union Catalogue (Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund, Göttingen)
Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Bibliographies (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Roma)
National and University Library of Croatia (Nacionalna i Sveucilišna Knjiznica, Zagreb)
National and University Library of Slovenia (Narodna in univerzitetna knjiznica, Ljubljana)
National Library of Finland (Kansalliskirjasto, Helsinki)
National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
National Library of Hungary (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár)
National Library of Lithuania (Martynas Mazvydas, Vilnius)
National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Library of Spain, (Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid)
National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth)
Oxford University Libraries
Royal Library, The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag)
Royal Library of Denmark (Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København)
Royal Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm)
Royal Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm) Collijn
Szeged University Library (SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár, Szeged)
University of London Library
Warsaw University Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie)
Wellcome Library, London
Yale University Library

Language Index

The Language index uses the three-letter codes for languages found in the OCLC Marc Code Lists (ISBN 1-55653-169-9). The language index also can be searched using the two-character ISO codes for languages. The English translations of these codes are also searchable. Note that the only precise search term is the three-letter code. All other terms may group language codes together. For example, English as a word search brings together Modern English, Old English, and Creole or Pidgin English.

Subject Indexes

The types of data have been broken down to allow specific searches, such as Geographic Coverage (58) and Genre (5655). The Descriptor search (5650) includes only topical information. The Subject index (21) contains topical and non-topical information, such as names, chronology, geography, and other subheadings.

Subject Phrase indexes

Each portion of the subject heading (e.g., subheading in 650/a,x,y,z) will be handled as a distinct phrase search. The suggested strategy in searching for records that contain those subheadings is to AND those terms together. The exception to this is the Subject All Phrase index (use attribute 21; completeness attribute 3). In that index all the subheadings in the field are indexed as one phrase.

Example Subject Phrase: 610 $a Kirkstall Abbey $v Pictorial works is searched by entering: kirkstall abbey AND pictorial works.

Example Subject All Phrase: 610 $a Kirkstall Abbey $v Pictorial works is searched by entering: "kirkstall abbey pictorial works".

Year Indexes

There are three different year indexes in Hand Press Book. Year index (31) is the first year given in the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data 008 date fields; this is the publication date. Year 2 index (5031) is the second date field in the 008. The year 2 index contains the ending year of a series, the original year of a reprinted work, and other specific year information. Imprint Year index (6030) is information from the 260/c,g (publication field) in the MARC record.

Using limiters:

You can limit searches by Cataloging Source (6119), Document Type Phrase (1001), Language Phrase (54), and Year (31).

Copyright

© 2008 The Hand Press Book database is the copyrighted product of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and/or suppliers of the Consortium. Users of the Hand Press Book database may reproduce a single copy of any record retrieved online, provided such copy is used solely for private study, scholarship, research, or information. Under no circumstances may users store any records electronically for the purposes of resale, redistribution, or performing ongoing searching.