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March 22, 2010 |
Gale Databases Coming to WorldCat Local The agreement calls for OCLC to centrally index the metadata of Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile databases to provide WorldCat Local users a direct link to the abstracts and articles in these popular, authoritative resources.   |
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November 22, 2010 |
The British Library Adds 12 Million Records to WorldCat As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and the British Library have enhanced the process to add these valuable records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide. |
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OCLC Integrates WorldCat Knowledgebase With WorldCat to Expand Library Content Connections The WorldCat knowledgebase combines data about libraries' electronic content with linking features that enable access to the content. |
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March 4, 2013 |
OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services. |
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January 28, 2013 |
OCLC and Gale Expand Partnership OCLC and Gale agreed to make all Gale databases and archives fully discoverable through WorldCat Local and to explore broadening discoverability of Gale collections through other applications available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. |
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November 8, 2010 |
OCLC and EBSCO Announce Expanded Data Exchange The new agreement is designed to create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. |
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July 16, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. |
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March 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
New Strategies for OCLC; More Content for EBSCO Publishing In a major change of direction, OCLC, a leading vendor of services to and by libraries, has decided to shut down its hosting and reselling of commercially produced vendor databases, including ebooks. |
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February 20, 2014 |
ProQuest and OCLC Partner for Library Discovery ProQuest added more than 320 million records from the ProQuest Central cross-disciplinary research tool to OCLC's WorldCat Discovery Services, a combination of OCLC's FirstSearch and WorldCat Local that debuts in March. |
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April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
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January 12, 2012 |
OCLC Working With SkillSoft to Add Records for Books24x7 Digital Book Catalog to WorldCat SkillSoft's growing selection of more than 30,000 titles in a variety of subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the Books24x7 platform. |
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October 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
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January 12, 2016 |
OCLC Partners With New Publishers for WorldCat Discovery Services OCLC has agreements with more than 200 publishers and information providers to receive their metadata. |
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May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
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February 2, 2012 |
WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications. |
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October 27, 2008 |
Bibliotheque nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries. |
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March 6, 2008 |
National Library of China to Add Its Records to OCLC WorldCat The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, making those records available to researchers worldwide. |
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October 11, 2004
Barbara Quint |
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search. |
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June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
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May 1, 2014 |
WorldCat Works Descriptions Are Now Available as Linked Data OCLC took its next step in working with linked data by announcing the production release of WorldCat Works, the first in a series of WorldCat linked data releases. |
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January 9, 2006
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Expands Linking Resources with Acquisition of Openly Informatics OCLC, the leading library vendor, has acquired Openly Informatics, a service that supplies linking software and services to libraries through direct arrangements and, especially, through platform services provided to library vendors. |
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April 12, 2010
Barbara Quint |
WorldCat Record Use Policy Changes at OCLC OCLC is making a second attempt to define the acceptable use of records in WorldCat, the world's largest library union catalog. |
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Nov/Dec 2004
Nancy O'Neill |
Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective Ultimately even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. If you believe in libraries, as OCLC obviously does, what's not to love about Open WorldCat? |
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July 18, 2011 |
WorldCat Content Coming to Credo General Reference Service With this new agreement, OCLC member libraries that subscribe to the Credo General Reference service will be able to retrieve a list of books from WorldCat related to the topic of their Credo Reference search. |
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May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
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June 25, 2013 |
OCLC Creates Metadata API to Improve WorldCat Cataloging Services The API helps OCLC members and partners build applications that allow them to catalog their collections on the OCLC WorldShare Platform, which supports OCLC's cloud-based services and applications worldwide. |
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April 10, 2008 |
Article Records From British Library Now in WorldCat.org OCLC announced it has added some 20 million article-level metadata records to WorldCat.org from The British Library. |
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June 16, 2011 |
Content from Brill Academic Publishers Coming to WorldCat Local A recent agreement between OCLC and Brill Academic Publishers will make Brill's reference, book, and journal content available to library users through WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery-to-delivery service that offers users integrated access to electronic, digital and physical library materials. |
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January 26, 2009 |
OCLC Launches WorldCat Mobile Pilot OCLC has launched a pilot program to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices. |
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June 25, 2012 |
EBSCO Announces New Partnerships that Enhance Discovery Options The new agreement between EBSCO Publishing and SirsiDynix will provide mutual customers with easier access to the databases, ejournals, and other econtent end users are looking for. |
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June 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment. |
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March 5, 2012 |
Relais International Partners With OCLC to Share Data and Services Relais International has signed an agreement with OCLC that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. |
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March 19, 2009 |
Project MUSE Expands Author Discovery Feature MUSE expanded the search to include links to more works by the author in Google Scholar and OCLC WorldCat. |
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November 2008
Miriam A. Drake |
OCLC: An Enterprise With a Global Perspective In the 10 years since Robert "Jay" Jordan became president of OCLC, he has transformed the company into a global enterprise and created greater value for libraries and the public. |
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November 26, 2007 |
OCLC Enhances WorldCat.org OCLC announced that the latest enhancement to WorldCat.org is a link to WorldCat Identities, an OCLC research prototype that creates a summary page for some 25 million personal and corporate authors mentioned in WorldCat. |
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September 6, 2012 |
OCLC Member Libraries Can Contribute Metadata to Europeana.eu Portal OCLC member institutions will be able to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative. |
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February 5, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC. |
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August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat. |
Information Today
November 15, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar The co-branded toolbar serves as a vehicle for delivering Open WorldCat content and empowers users with the ability to seamlessly search for information that is available in offline databases. |
Information Today
March 2, 2009 |
ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008 |
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August 2004
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. |
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July 5, 2005
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings. |
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October 22, 2013 |
OCLC Adds Collections to WorldCat OCLC finalized agreements with a group of global publishers that will add more electronic collections to the WorldCat database. |
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August 30, 2012 |
OCLC Libraries Begin Phased Migration to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan Service WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is scheduled to replace WorldCat Resource Sharing in 2013 as part of libraries' existing subscriptions. |
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January 15, 2009 |
OCLC Still Reviewing Policy for Use of WorldCat Records The goals of the new policy are to modernize record use and transfer practices for application on the web, foster new uses of WorldCat data that benefit members, and clarify data-sharing rights and restrictions. |
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November 12, 2013 |
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs. |
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December 15, 2011
Marshall Breeding |
OCLC WorldShare Platform: OCLC Brands and Strengthens Its Webscale Strategy It has been no secret that OCLC has been hard at work developing a new global technology platform to support the automation needs of libraries. |
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March 31, 2015 |
WorldCat Discovery Services Lands LexisNexis Academic The LexisNexis Academic database will be accessible via WorldCat Discovery Services for mutual subscribers. |
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December 2000
Tom Hogan |
IT Interview: Jay Jordan Settles In at OCLC Jay Jordan became president and CEO of OCLC about 2 years ago, following the retirement of K. Wayne Smith, who had achieved living legend status during his 10-year tenure---a tough act to follow... |
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April 24, 2014 |
OCLC and Ingram Automate WorldCat Ebook Holdings OCLC and Ingram Content Group collaborated on a new program that automatically maintains Ingram's MyiLibrary ebook holdings in OCLC's WorldCat. |
