163 — Publishing date role

27 codes · Introduced in Issue 9

Code Description History
01 Publication date modified
Nominal date of publication. This date is primarily used for planning, promotion and other business process purposes, and is not necessarily the first date for retail sales or fulfillment of pre-orders. In the absence of a sales embargo date, retail sales and pre-order fulfillment may begin as soon as stock is available to the retailer
+9 · ✎40
02 Sales embargo date modified
If there is an embargo on retail sales (in the market) before a certain date, the date from which the embargo is lifted and retail sales and fulfillment of pre-orders are permitted. (In some markets, this may be termed a ‘strict on-sale date’.) In the absence of an embargo date, retail sales and pre-order fulfillment may begin as soon as stock is available to the retailer
+12 · ✎67
09 Public announcement date modified
Date when a new product may be announced to the general public. Prior to the announcement date, the product data is intended for internal use by the recipient and supply chain partners only. After the announcement date, or in the absence of an announcement date, the planned product may be announced to the public as soon as metadata is available
+9 · ✎46
10 Trade announcement date modified
Date when a new product may be announced to the book trade only. Prior to the announcement date, the product information is intended for internal use by the recipient only. After the announcement date, or in the absence of a trade announcement date, the planned product may be announced to supply chain partners (but not necessarily made public – see the Public announcement date) as soon as metadata is available
+9 · ✎46
11 Date of first publication modified
Date when the work incorporated in a product was first published. For works in translation, see also Date of first publication in original language (code 20)
+9 · ✎40
12 Latest reprint date modified
Date when a product was most recently reprinted
+9 · ✎67
13 Out-of-print / permanently withdrawn date modified
Date when a product was (or will be) declared out-of-print, permanently withdrawn from sale or deleted
+9 · ✎58
16 Latest reissue date modified
Date when a product was most recently reissued
+9 · ✎67
19 Publication date of print counterpart modified
Date of publication of a printed book which is the direct print counterpart to a digital product. The counterpart product may be included in <RelatedProduct> using code 13
+11 · ✎40
20 Date of first publication in original language modified
Date when the original language version of the work incorporated in a product was first published (note, use only on works in translation – and also see code 11 for the first publication date of the translation)
+13 · ✎72
21 Forthcoming reissue date
Date when a product will be reissued
+13
22 Expected availability date after temporary withdrawal
Date when a product that has been temporary withdrawn from sale or recalled for any reason is expected to become available again, eg after correction of quality or technical issues
+15
23 Review embargo date
Date from which reviews of a product may be published eg in newspapers and magazines or online. Provided to the book trade for information only: newspapers and magazines are not expected to be recipients of ONIX metadata
+16
25 Publisher’s reservation order deadline
Latest date on which an order may be placed with the publisher for guaranteed delivery prior to the publication date. May or may not be linked to a special reservation or pre-publication price
+18
26 Forthcoming reprint date
Date when a product will be reprinted
+18
27 Preorder embargo date
Earliest date a retail ‘preorder’ can be placed (in the market), where this is distinct from the public announcement date. In the absence of a preorder embargo, advance orders can be placed as soon as metadata is available to the consumer (this would be the public announcement date, or in the absence of a public announcement date, the earliest date metadata is available to the retailer)
+25
28 Transfer date
Date of acquisition of product by new publisher (use with publishing roles 09 and 13)
+28
29 Date of production
For an audiovisual work (eg on DVD)
+30
30 Streaming embargo date
For digital products that are available to end customers both as a download and streamed, the earliest date the product can be made available on a stream, where the streamed version becomes available later than the download. For the download, see code 02 if it is embargoed or code 01 if there is no embargo
+43
31 Subscription embargo date
For digital products that are available to end customers both as purchases and as part of a subscription package, the earliest date the product can be made available by subscription, where the product may not be included in a subscription package until some while after publication. For ordinary sales, see code 02 if there is a sales embargo or code 01 if there is no embargo
+43
32 Download embargo date
For digital products that are available to end customers both as a download and streamed, the earliest date the product can be made available via download, where the download version becomes available later than the stream. For any embargo on the stream, see code 02
+70
33 Purchase embargo date
For digital products that are available to end customers both as purchases and as part of a subscription package, the earliest date the product can be made available to purchase, where the product may not be purchased until some while after it becomes available via the subscription. For any embargo on the subscription, see code 02
+70
35 CIP date
Date by which CIP copy is required for inclusion in the product
+51
36 Date of first unabridged publication
Date when the unabridged version of the work incorporated in a product was first published (note, use only on abridged works – and also see code 11 for the first publication date of the abridgement)
+72
37 Year of publication
Where this is managed separately from the date of publication (code 01), for example for library use. Note, requires an explicit dateformat="05" attribute (YYYY)
+73
38 Preview embargo date
Date from which previews of a product may be made available, where the embargo is managed separately from any Sales embargo date. Applies to all previews (previews in <TextContent> or <SupportingResource>, previews covered by <EpubUsageConstraint> and external preview ‘widgets’) unless overridden by a Valid from date for a specific preview
+73
39 Library embargo date
For digital products that are available to end customers both via retail sale and sales to libraries, the earliest date the product can be made available to purchase by libraries, or made available by a library to patrons. For any embargo on non-library sales, see code 02
+73