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Book/Printed Material Software, E-Resource Web Page Women in the Copyright System – An Analysis of Women Authors in Copyright Registrations from 1978 to 2020

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Title

  • Women in the Copyright System – An Analysis of Women Authors in Copyright Registrations from 1978 to 2020

Summary

  • In connection with the release of the Women in the Copyright System report, the Office is providing a reference data set of public catalog data, as described below. Coverage: The data set contains copyright registration records, copyright renewal records, and recorded document records, from January 1, 1978, to July 8, 2021. Format: Records are available to download as zipped XML files. Frequency: The data set is static and reflects copyright registrations, copyright renewals, and recorded documents from January 1, 1978, to July 8, 2021. The timeframe used in the report was January 1, 1978, to December 31, 2020. The Office may update the data set occasionally to more accurately reflect activity within that period. Those who have downloaded an earlier data set are encouraged to update their records to the most recent update.
  • Content: The data set contains information on authors, types of works registered, publication status, and other relevant copyright information. More detailed descriptions of the fields, variables, and definitions can be found in the Library of Congress Copyright Data as Distributed in the Marc Format document. The data are available in twenty-six file parts, numbered sequentially, and include recorded document and registration records. Registration and recorded document records for any variable or year may be present in multiple file parts. Individual file parts may not contain all available records pertaining to any specific variable and may not be suitable for analysis independent of the full data set.

Names

  • Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : U.S. Copyright Office, 2022.

Headings

  • -  Women authors, American
  • -  Copyright--United States

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "June 9, 2022: original data release [version 1.0] ; October 25, 2022: revised data release [version 2.0]"--report website.
  • -  Title from report website, viewed February 22, 2023.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Form

  • AcroForm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PS151

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022360892

Online Format

  • pdf
  • compressed data

Pages

  • 22

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Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is providing access to The Selected Datasets Collection for educational and research purposes. The Library has obtained permission for the use of many materials in the Collection, and presents additional materials for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law. Researchers should watch for modern documents that may be copyrighted (for example, published in the United States more than 95 years ago, or unpublished and the author died less than 70 years ago).

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress. Copyright Office. Women in the Copyright System – An Analysis of Women Authors in Copyright Registrations fromto 2020. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Copyright Office, 2022. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020478722/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Copyright Office. (2022) Women in the Copyright System – An Analysis of Women Authors in Copyright Registrations fromto 2020. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Copyright Office. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020478722/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Copyright Office. Women in the Copyright System – An Analysis of Women Authors in Copyright Registrations fromto 2020. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Copyright Office, 2022. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020478722/>.