ABOUT THE SALES PRODUCT CATALOG (SPC) Sales Product Catalog Online via GPO Access is updated daily. This file serves as a guide to Government information products currently offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents and is arranged by GPO stock number. The SPC includes citations to forthcoming Government information products as well as to titles which have recently been superseded or gone out of print. ABOUT THE REFFIL.ZIP FILE The Sales Product Catalog is available on the Federal Bulletin Board as a compressed ASCII file named Reffil.zip, and is currently over 18 MB decompressed The Sales product Catalog file can be opened in any word processor program and searched using a Find command. Do not search for the name of a field or you will retrieve too many hits. Using the Print command may print the entire file. To print a record or set of records, highlight the text to be printed or select a page range to be printed. DEFINITIONS OF FIELDS Title: Name of the document, usually taken from the title page. May be taken from the cover, envelope, mailing carton, or disc label of items without a title page. For most microfiche, the title is taken from the title page frame. On CD- ROMS, it is usually taken from the disc label or the paper booklet insert. Stock number: The 12 digit hyphenated number used to identify and order a Government information product or subscription. Availability: Stock status. Indicates if the Government information product is currently available from GPO. Approximately one-half of the items listed are available; the rest are either forthcoming or out of stock Price: Gives the domestic price for non-priority mailing. This is the price for United States customers. Price (Non-U.S.): Gives the foreign price. Standing Order Code: Indicates that the Government information product is available on a standing order basis. If this service is requested, future Government information products in this series will be mailed to the customer. All standing order codes begin with the letter Z. Description: The Description Field provides the following information, where applicable: departmental series, report number, complete title, alternate title, additional information about personal/corporate authors, scope note or annotation, Departmental or contract number, Library of Congress card number, additional ISBN numbers, and the Depository Library item number. Publisher: Document Source. Name of the Federal agency that issued or released the document. Sometimes referred to as the "corporate author". Year/Pages: Imprint. For most titles, the year the Government information product was first printed followed by the pagination. For non-books, it includes the format of the item, for example, posters, maps, or CD-ROM. Note: This paragraph is used for special information. It includes the following, where applicable: supersession information, NB (New Book) number if the item is listed in GPO's "New Products Catalog", Depository Shipping List (DSL) number, if the Government information product was mailed to Depository Libraries and listed on the "Daily Depository Shipping List" in recent years, O/N or Office Notice number (if it is a subscription which has been changed by an internally issued GPO office notice), and other sales information. Key Phrases: Refers to series, subject headings, and key words and phrases from the title. Many subject headings are from "Legislative Indexing Vocabulary", a thesaurus published by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. SuDocs Class: The Superintendent of Documents classification number. Many libraries use these numbers to arrange their Government documents collections. Extra Description: Related to the binding and format fields, this field indicates if the item is mailed in mailing cartons or envelopes, is plastic coated, and if it has a dust jacket. ISBN: International Standard Book Number. Used by many book dealers. Author: The person or persons who wrote the document. This field may also list editors, compilers, and illustrators, if named prominently on the Government information product. Up to two authors may be listed. Weight: The weight of the Government information product. Used by GPO to determine mailing costs. Binding: Gives type of binding. This field also indicates if the item is a non- book, or "specialty item." Available Date: The date the document first came into stock and was available for retail purchase. It is added when an item initially becomes available. Subject Bibliography: Subject Bibliography numbers. Identifying number(s) of the GPO Subject Bibliographies which list Government information products on a similar subject. Status Date: Date the status, or availability, of the Government information product last changed. Unit: "Each" identifies the price for single copies. Other possible units of issue are pad, package, and set. Unit (Non-U.S.) should be the same as the unit for United States customers. Quantity Pricing: "Discount" means there is a discount available for customers who order 100 copies or more. A discount is also available for bookdealers, regardless of the number of copies ordered. "No discount" means the Government information product cannot be discounted further; it already has a special price. "See note" means read the note field. Cross Reference Number: Usually refers to the number of a new edition. On some older subscriptions, the cross reference number refers to an old number. Format: Identifies the format of non-books. These include posters, microfiche, multi-media, computer tapes, and maps. Sub List: Subscription List identification. Symbol used by GPO to identify a subscription. This symbol should be cited when ordering a subscription service. It should begin with the letters A to Y. An example is MLR, for "Monthly Labor Review". Also known as the "List ID." ISSN: International Standard Serial Number. An example is 0039-6222. AVAILABILITY STATUS DEFINITIONS IN NUMERICAL ORDER 1. NEW REQUISITION - (NOT PRICED) - Item is being printed but a price has not yet been determined. No backorders can be accepted without an established price. A price should be established soon. 2. NEW REQUISITION - (PRICED) - This is a new item with an established price. It should be in stock within 60-75 days. Backorders are accepted at this time. 3. IN STOCK - WAREHOUSE AND/OR RETAIL (NOT PRICED) - Stock is in the warehouse but a price has not yet been established. A price should be established within 5 days. Backorders cannot be accepted until a price has been established. 4. IN STOCK - WAREHOUSE AND/OR RETAIL (PRICED) The item is priced and available for immediate sale. 10. BEING REPRINTED (PRICED) (NO STOCK IN WAREHOUSE OR RETAIL) The item is priced but is temporarily out of stock. It is being reprinted due to demand. Backorders are accepted at this time and copies will be mailed as soon as reprinted stock is available. Reprints usually are available within 60-75 days. 12. PENDING REPRINT DECISION (PRICED) (NO STOCK IN WAREHOUSE OR RETAIL) - Item is out of stock and a decision to reprint has not been made at this time. Backorders are accepted during this time, but may subsequently be cancelled and refunds sent to customers, depending on the reprint decision. 13. SUPERSEDED 14. MORE RECENT EDITION AVAILABLE In both the superseded and the more recent edition available statuses, the customer should refer to the new edition. Neither superseded nor previous editions are kept in stock. Stock numbers of the later editions can be found in the cross-reference number field and the note field. 15. OUT-OF-PRINT-GPO - Item is out of stock and GPO does not intend to restock it. Occasionally, GPO does revive out-of- print items due to demand, but in most cases the item cannot even be obtained from the issuing agency. 16. FROZEN BY DCB - Frozen by Documents Control Branch. This Government information product is not available for sale at this time due to a problem. Once the problem is corrected, the Government information product may be available again. At this time backorders are accepted and copies will be mailed as soon as the problem is corrected. In a few cases, the problem is serious enough to warrant total removal of the item from the sales program and the mailing of refunds to customers. 19. SEE SPECIAL NOTE - Item requires special ordering information, which appears in the Note field of the record. This includes information for Government information products sold exclusively by SuDocs consigned sales agents. 20. IN STOCK - CONTROLLED ITEM (PRICED) - This item is for sale to authorized purchasers only. Further details may be available in the Note field of the record. 21. PENDING EXHAUST - This item is likely to go out-of-print within a few days. 22. FIELD OPERATIONS STOCK (PRICED) - Item is not stocked in the Government information products warehouse in the Washington, DC metropolitan area but copies may be available through the Public Documents Distribution Center, in Pueblo, Colorado, or at a United States Government bookstore. Orders should be forwarded to Washington, DC. More details may be found in the Note field of the record. 23. PENDING SUBRUN - This issue of a subscription service is in the warehouse at this time, but copies have not yet been mailed to subscribers. AVAILABILITY STATUS DEFINITIONS ALPHABETICAL LIST BEING REPRINTED (PRICED) (NO STOCK IN WAREHOUSE OR RETAIL) The item is priced but is temporarily out of stock. It is being reprinted due to demand. Backorders are accepted at this time and copies will be mailed as soon as reprinted stock is available. Reprints usually are available within 60-75 days. FIELD OPERATIONS STOCK (PRICED) - Item is not stocked in the Government information products warehouse in the Washington, DC metropolitan area but copies may be available through the Public Documents Distribution Center, in Pueblo, Colorado, or at a United States Government bookstore. Orders should be forwarded to Washington, DC. More details may be found in the Note field of the record. FROZEN BY DCB - Frozen by Documents Control Branch. This Government information product is not available for sale at this time due to a problem. Once the problem is corrected, the Government information product may be available again. At this time backorders are accepted and copies will be mailed as soon as the problem is corrected. In a few cases, the problem is serious enough to warrant total removal of the item from the sales program and the mailing of refunds to customers. IN STOCK - CONTROLLED ITEM (PRICED) - This item is for sale to authorized purchasers only. Further details may be available in the Note field of the record. IN STOCK - WAREHOUSE AND/OR RETAIL (NOT PRICED) - Stock is in the warehouse but a price has not yet been established. A price should be established within 5 days. Backorders cannot be accepted until a price has been established. IN STOCK - WAREHOUSE & RETAIL (PRICED) The item is priced and available for immediate sale. In the last two statuses, stock is available and is also being reprinted. MORE RECENT EDITION AVAILABLE In both the superseded and the more recent edition available statuses, the customer should refer to the new edition. Neither superseded nor previous editions are kept in stock. Stock numbers of the later editions can be found in the cross-reference number field and the note field. NEW REQUISITION (NOT PRICED) - Item is being printed but a price has not yet been determined. No backorders can be accepted at this time without an established price. A price should be established soon. NEW REQUISITION (PRICED) - This is a new item with an established price. It should be in stock within 60-75 days. Backorders are accepted at this time. OUT-OF-PRINT-GPO - Item is out of stock and GPO does not intend to restock it. Occasionally, GPO does revive out-of-print items due to demand, but in most cases the item cannot even be obtained from the issuing agency. PENDING REPRINT DECISION (PRICED) (NO STOCK IN WAREHOUSE OR RETAIL) - Item is out of stock and a decision to reprint has not been made at this time. Backorders are accepted during this time, but may subsequently be cancelled and refunds sent to customers, depending on the reprint decision. PENDING SUBRUN - This issue of a subscription service is in the warehouse at this time, but copies have not yet been mailed to subscribers. SEE SPECIAL NOTE - Item requires special ordering information, which appears in the Note field of the record. This includes information for Government information products sold exclusively by SuDocs consigned sales agents. SUPERSEDED In both the superseded and the previous edition statuses, the customer should refer to the new edition. Neither superseded nor previous editions are kept in stock. Stock numbers of the later editions can be found in the cross-reference number field and the note field.