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Publication information not found on the resource should be recorded in brackets. The name of the publisher is core but the name of distributor/manufacturer is required (if ascertainable) in situations where the publisher is unknown. Publication information not found on the resource should be recorded in brackets.

Date of Publication

RDA defines the publication date as a date associated with the publication, release, or issuing of a resource. (CCM:10.4.1) LC/PCC practice is not to record copyright dates for multipart monographs, serials, and integrating resources. Give the date of publication of the first issue followed by a hyphen when the first issue is in hand; give the date of the last issue when the serial is complete and the last issue is in hand.” (CCM: 10.4.2a

264 #1 $a ..., $c 1987-
362 1# $a Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1987).

If neither the first nor last issue is in hand, do not give a date of publication according to RDA 2.8.6.5. (CCM: 10.4.2b

When only an approximate date can be provided, a date containing a hyphen and/or question mark can be used as publication date (RDA 2.8.6.5).
264 #1 $a [Sugar Land, Texas.] : $b Internet Scientific
Publications, $c [between 2000 and 2009?]-
362 1# $a Began with vol. 1, no. 1.