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What is a sudoc
number?
A sudoc number is a number, like GP
3.24:2008/1, that is used by the Superintedent of Documents, a branch
of the Federal Printing Office, to label the things they create in
print, microfiche, cd-rom or online form so that people can find them.
They have been used in the Government Documents area of the UTPA
Libary.
The letters in the number, like the one
above, stand for a branch of the federal government such as GP for
Government Printing Office. The rest of the number before the colon
stands for a book of a list of classes of United States
publications. The number before the colon is called the root or
class number. The number after the colon is called the book
number.
The sudoc letters stand for superintendent
of documents number and as explained above stands for different federal
agencies like HS for the Coast Guard that gets this number because it
is part of the Homeland Security agency. Defence documents have a D and
Health and Human Services department documents have an HE.
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here for a further explanation of SUDOC numbers
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