Guidelines For The Use of Field 856

Prepared by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress

March 1995

Field 856 in the USMARC bibliographic and holdings formats is used for Electronic Location and Access and contains information needed to locate an electronic resource. It contains enough information to both locate the item and retrieve it or connect to a service. In addition, it has been used for linking to an electronic finding aid. The field may be used in a bibliographic record for an item when that item or a subset of that item is available electronically. In the latter case, the portion of the item for which location and access information is given in the field is indicated in subfield $3 (Materials specified).

• General Instructions
  • Required Subfields
  • $2 Access Methods
  • Use of Uniform Resource Locator
  • Library of Congress Practice

• Attachment A: Field Description
  • Indicators (list only)
  • Subfield Codes (list only)
  • Field Definition and Scope
  • Guidelines For Applying Content Designators
    • Indicators
    • Subfield Codes
  • Input Conventions
  • Related USMARC Field or Document

• Attachment B: Examples

• Cornell Guidelines for the Use of Field 856

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