Of course any publisher that participates in one or more of the various CIP programs (LC, BL, etc.) will receive data (including LCSH) from the relevant national bibliographic agency that can then be incorporated into their ONIX records (new or amended) for distribution to vendors, etc. This would be the case for all major publishers, though not all may exploit their CIP data to this extent.
Ed Jones
National University (San Diego, Calif.)
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Quoting Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu>:
> You are right about the LCSH terms, but at least some include the
> subdivisions. Here is an example taken at random:
> "Graphic Artists Guild handbook : pricing & ethical guidelines."
> http://books.google.com/books?id=doHyI6ami8MC&dq=%22motion+pictures%22&lr=&ei=kyyySsGFMInOzQSvk6iVAw
Jim, note that this is not a record that Google scanned from a library
-- it's from one of its publisher partners. Any books currently in
print that you find in Google books are there because of a contract
between Google and the publisher. I would love to know where Google
got all of its data from, but as you know many publishers are
providing MARC data along with their books, so the LC subject headings
may have come along with the publisher data. Ironically, in that case,
the data is probably not controlled by the OCLC policy (either the old
nor the new that was withdrawn).
kc
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