044 Country of Publishing/Producing Entity Code

Field definition and scope:

Field 044 contains a two- or three-character code for the country of the publishing or producing entity when field 008/15-17 (Place of publication, production, or execution) is insufficient to convey full information for an item published or produced in more than one country.

The source of the code in subfield $a is MARC Code List for Countries that is maintained by the Library of Congress. A locally defined subentity code may be recorded in subfield $b when desired to indicate a subentity below the country level with its source indicated in subfield $2. Subfield $c may be used to include country and subentity codes from Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes or Part 2: Country subdivision codes (ISO 3166).

This field is used in conjunction with 008/15-17 (Place of publication, production, or execution). The code in 008/15-17 is recorded in the first occurrence of subfield $a of field 044.

The National level record requirement for this field is Optional; for visual materials it is Mandatory if applicable.

Field 044 is NOT repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National-level (NLR) and Minimal-level (MLR) record requirements, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	NLR	MLR	Repeatability
Field 044	Country of Publishing/Producing Entity Code	O	O	NR
	for Visual materials	A
Indicator:
First	Undefined; contains a blank	M
Second	Undefined; contains a blank	M

Subfield code:
$a	MARC country code	M	O	R
$b	Local subentity code	O	O	R
$c	ISO country code	O	O	R
$2	Source of local subentity code	A	O	R
$6	Linkage	A	O	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	O	R

Input conventions:

Length

Capitalization

Content designator history:

Subfield $c - ISO country code [redefined, 2001]: Subfield $c was redefined to include both ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 codes.