What is WorldCat Discovery?
WorldCat Discovery provides broad searching of WorldCat and e-content collections that meets the needs of more general searchers. Through WorldCat Discovery, people can search the entire WorldCat database of more than 400 million records, plus a central index of more than 2,400 e-content collections.
What is WorldCat and what is it best used for?
WorldCat is an online library catalog that lets you look up books, dissertations, microform, journals and multimedia items in libraries around the world.
What type of database is WorldCat?
WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. OCLC delivers quality, discoverability and value. Member libraries provide the foundation. Partners support WorldCat growth.
What is OCLC Connexion?
Connexion is a full-service online cataloging tool backed by OCLC’s 40+ years of cataloging experience. Connexion lets you create and edit high-quality bibliographic and authority records and then share them with the entire OCLC cooperative, which benefits libraries around the world.
What is the difference between OCLC and WorldCat?
OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public.
What does OCLC number mean?
OCLC Control Number
The OCLC Control Number is a unique, sequentially assigned number associated with a record in WorldCat. The number is included in a WorldCat®record when the record is created. The OCLC Control Number can be found in MARC fields 001, 019, and 035 as follows.
Is OCLC the same as WorldCat?
What happened to WorldCat?
In 2012, OCLC added experimental linked data to records in WorldCat.org. Our ability to learn from this experimental linked data on WorldCat.org has reached an end, and the quality of links has diminished over time, so we will remove it on 17 February 2021.
Is OCLC Connexion free?
OCLC offers software downloads for several products as well as free browser plug-ins for access to library collections on the Web.
What is OCLC record manager?
Overview. WorldShare Record Manager allows you to create new and enrich existing items in WorldCat with efficient, record-at-a-time metadata management for your physical and electronic materials using a MARC 21 editor, Text View editor, or Authority record editor.
What is WorldCat OCLC?
WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. OCLC delivers quality, discoverability and value. Member libraries provide the foundation.
What is ococlc doing for Linked Data?
OCLC continues to explore linked data benefits for discovery, authority control, disambiguation and more as part of our work on numerous standards committees and community projects.
How can WorldCat Discovery help your library?
WorldCat Discovery helps your library have a greater impact on campus and in your community. “We were able to maintain student access to library resources, even when our library was in a different city from the campus, because WorldCat Discovery makes it so easy for them to browse and get millions of electronic resources.”
How does a FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscription work with OCLC cataloging?
A FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscription works with your OCLC cataloging subscription to make your collections visible in places where people start their searches.