Publication Dates

• Required field, though this field is not used in tab-separated indexing

• This field is for the beginning and ending publication dates of the series, with a space-dash-space in between.

• This field includes the complete date information of the first and last issue of the series, not just the year(s) of publication.

• If there is only one issue of a series, this field will only have one date.

• If the series is currently being published, this field's second element will be "Present"

• Examples:

May 1960 - August-September 1967
December 1954-January 1955 - June 1959
1980
[March] 1993 - [May] 1993
January 2007 - Present
[circa 1960s]

(end of definition)

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Unapproved definition brought over from re-write (July 14, 2008)