BS ISO 9707:2008 BRITISH STANDARD Information and documentation - Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers. periodicals and electronic publications ICS 01.140.20 BSi NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW British Standards BS ISO 9707:2008 National foreword This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO 9707:2008. It supersedes BS EN ISO 9707:1995 which is withdrawn. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IDT/2/15, Library and publishing statistics. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegalobligations. This British Standard was Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Date Comments Committee on 30 September 2008 @ BSI 2008 ISBN9780580542527 BS IS0 9707:2008 ISO INTERNATIONAL 9707 STANDARD Second edition 2008-05-01 Informationanddocumentation- Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications Information etdocumentationStatistiques relativesa laproduction et a la distribution de livres, de journaux,deperiodiques et de publications électroniques Referencenumber ISO 9707:2008(E) @ISO 2008 BS ISO 9707:2008 ISO 9707:2008(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below. COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO2008 ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Casepostale56:CH-1211Geneva20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland = @ IS0 2008 - All rights reserved BSISO 9707:2008 ISO9707:2008(E) Contents Page Foreword iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Terms and definitions... 3 Statistics onbooks andpamphlets 3.1 General.... 3.2 Publications to be included... 3.3 Statistics on production.... 3.4 Statistics on distribution.... 4 Statistics on newspapers and periodicals. 4.1 10 4.2 Publications to be included... 10 4.3 Statistics on production... 10 4.4 Statistics on distribution. 5 Statisticsontheproduction ofdatabases 5.1 13 5.2 Principles of data collection... 13 5.3 Presentationof statisticaldata. 13 6 Statistics on the publishing industry... 6.1 General.... 6.2 6.3 Presentation of statistical data... 14 AnnexA(informative)Subject classification 15 Bibliography .... ISO 2008 - All rights reserved ili BS ISO 9707:2008 ISO9707:2008(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on allmatters of electrotechnical standardization. InternationalStandardsaredraftedinaccordancewiththerulesgivenintheISO/iECDirectives,Part2 adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 9707 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, Subcommittee Sc8,Quality-Statisticsandperformanceevaluation. This second edition ca