{{Short description|Book or journal, often in a series}} {{Redir|Bookset|typesetting a book|Typesetting{{!}}Booksetting}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021|cs1-dates=y}}

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A '''volume''' is a physical book. It may be printed or handwritten. The term is commonly used to identify a single book that is part of a larger collection. Volumes are typically identified sequentially with Roman or Arabic numerals, e.g. "volume III" or "volume 3", commonly abbreviated to "Vol.".<ref name="Woodard_2002"/>

Volumes may be published directly, or they may be created out of multiple bound issues. For instance, a library that subscribes to a periodical and wishes to preserve it typically takes a set of the issues and has them bound into a volume.<ref name="Bunn_1962"/><ref name="Ditzion-Norman_1956"/> A publisher may also separately publish a volume out of previously published issues; this is common with graphic novels. A volume may also be composed of entries, as in an encyclopedia, or chapters, as in a monograph.

The term is also used as an identifier for a sequence of periodicals. This is generally based on a single calendar year, but not always. For instance, a school magazine might start each new volume at the beginning of the academic year or at the beginning of each term/semester. Likewise, a journal may start new volumes for each anniversary after its original inception. Thus, all issues published in the ''N''th term or year will be classified under the ''N''th volume.<ref name="Woodard_2002"/> The original function of labelling issues with a volume at publication time was to provide a standard way for libraries to later bind the issues into a physical volume.<ref name="Bunn_1962"/><ref name="Ditzion-Norman_1956"/>

A '''{{vanchor|Part|text=part}}'''<!-- vanchor used for incoming redirects --> (commonly abbreviated to "Pt.") can be a special sub-division of a volume or it can be the highest level division of a journal. Parts are often designated with letters or names, e.g. "B", "Supplement".<ref name="Hellman_2005"/>

==See also== {{Portal|Books}} * Book series * Collection * Issue * Journalism * Magazine

==References== <references> <ref name="Bunn_1962">{{cite journal |author-last=Bunn |author-first=Rosemary M. |title=Binding of Periodicals in the National Lending Library |date=1962-01-01 |journal=Journal of Documentation |issn=0022-0418 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=20–24 |doi=10.1108/eb026312 |publisher=MCB UP Ltd |url=}}</ref> <ref name="Ditzion-Norman_1956">{{cite journal |title=Problems of Periodical and Serial Binding |author-first1=Sidney |author-last1=Ditzion |author-first2=Leverett |author-last2=Norman |date=Winter 1956 |journal=Library Trends |department=Conservation of Library Materials |issn=0024-2594 |volume=4 |issue=3 |s2cid=193321308 |publisher=Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |hdl=2142/5657 |pages=248–258 |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/5657/librarytrendsv4i3e_opt.pdf |access-date=2021-07-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130105523/https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/5657/librarytrendsv4i3e_opt.pdf |archive-date=2020-11-30}} (11 pages)</ref> <ref name="Woodard_2002">{{cite web |title=Journalism (newspapers/magazines): volume and issue |department=Questions and Answers |website=All Experts |date=2002-10-29 |editor-first=Beth |editor-last=Woodard |publisher=About, Inc. |url=http://en.allexperts.com/q/Journalism-newspapers-magazines-2494/volume-issue.htm |access-date=2012-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202011515/http://en.allexperts.com/q/Journalism-newspapers-magazines-2494/volume-issue.htm |archive-date=2010-02-02}}</ref> <ref name="Hellman_2005">{{cite web |title=Brief guide to Implementing OpenURL 1.0 Context Object for Journal Articles |editor-first=Eric |editor-last=Hellman |publisher=OCLC |location=New Jersey, US |work=OpenURL COinS: A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML |version=1.0 |edition=stable |date=2009-06-16 |orig-date=2005-03-22 |url=http://ocoins.info/cobg.html |access-date=2016-11-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130184729/http://ocoins.info/cobg.html |archive-date=2016-11-30 |quote=rft.part […] Part can be a special subdivision of a volume or it can be the highest level division of the journal. Parts are often designated with letters or names, i.e. "B", "Supplement".}}</ref> </references>

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