BIC STANDARD SUBJECT CATEGORIES
BIC Subject Category Selection Tool
Use this to assign BIC subject categories to your titles quickly and easily.
Version 2.1 planned for 2010
A new version of the BIC standard subject categories scheme is planned this year. This will be the first revision since 2006 and will be limited in its scope in order to minimise disruption and make the new release as easy as possible to implement.
However, it has become clear that the scheme needs to respond to new publishing areas, changed genre descriptions and developments in the outside world. It is therefore proposed that the new release will be strictly limited to: the addition of new categories where required; and the modification of existing headings to reflect current terminology or usage. No existing categories will be deleted, and there will be no relocations, no new sections and no restructuring.
Proposals for additional categories already notified will automatically be taken into account for the new release. Further suggestions should be sent to Howard Willows at Nielsen Book (howard.willows@nielsen.com) no later than the end of July.
Discussion paper on classifying Young Adult material, June 2010
BIC Standard Subject Categories - Version 2, revision 01
(Please check with intended recipient before implementing)
Introduction and summary
Version 2, revision 01 - complete list of categories
Subjects only list
Qualifiers only list
User Guidelines Release 3.3 (July 2009)
Conversion procedures from Version 1.1 to Version 2, revision 01
Conversion procedures from BIC 1.1 to BIC 2 revision 01
Conversion table from BIC 1.1 to BIC 2 revision 01
BIC Standard Subject Categories - Version 1.1
