Use Cyrillic script data for cataloging items in languages that use the Cyrillic script (for example, Russan, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian). Use Cyrillic script data the same way you use other non-Latin script data in the client.
See Work with international records and Guidelines for contributing non-Latin script bibliographic records to WorldCat for details specific to non- Latin scripts. See also general procedures describing how to:
Cyrillic scripts can also be used to add variant name headings to authority records. Cyrillic script data in authority records is limited to the MARC-8 character set.
Caution: MARC-8 character verification is not appropriate for verifying Cyrillic characters outside the MARC-8 character set. The OCLC system validates these Cyrillic characters when you validate the record.
Caution: If Cyrillic records outside the MARC-8 character set are in the record you wish to export or import, you must export and import them in Unicode format.
The client supports the following basic and extended Cyrillic character sets defined in MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media:
The client also supports Cyrillic characters outside the MARC-8 character set. These characters are defined in Unicode version 6.2.0 as U+0400, U+0460 to U+0461, U+0464 to U+0469, U+046C to U+0471, U+0476 to U+048F and U+0492 to U+04FF.
The client adds the following data to subfield ǂc of field 066 in Cyrillic records to indicate the presence of Cyrillic characters:
See the ALA-LC Romanization Table for the various languages that are written in Cyrillic script on the Library of Congress website
See general procedures and search techniques for searching WorldCat.
All capital or uppercase/capital forms of Cyrillic letters are indexed the same as the corresponding small or lowercase/small forms of Cyrillic letters.
For example, Cyrillic capital letter yu () is indexed the same as Cyrillic small letter yu ().
Enter either a capital or small version of a Cyrillic letter in a search and retrieve results for both.