Monograph

• "A bibliographic resource that is complete in one part or intended to be complete within a finite number of parts"
  
  
• Parts may or may not be numbered

Serial

• "A continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion"
  
  
• Issues stand alone or comprise part of a volume that could later be collected together
  
  
• Examples: journals, newsletters, electronic journals, annual reports, newspapers

Integrating Resource

• "A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole"
  
  
• Old content is continually replaced with new content
  
  
• Integrating resources can be Finite or Continuing
  
  
• Examples: updating loose-leafs, updating Web sites, updating databases

Iteration

• An instance of an integrating resource, either after it is first published, or after it is updated. E.g., "what you see"

Seriality

• Refers to a bibliographic resource that changes over time, therefore its bibliographic data changes over time

Type of Issuance

• Refers to how the bibliographic resource is published, distributed or produced, and if it is updated, how is it updated

Document last revised: 12/08/04
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