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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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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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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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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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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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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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
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April 3, 2014 |
OCLC Adds Japanese Metadata to WorldCat OCLC partnered with the Japanese distributor NetAdvance to add Japanese-language metadata to WorldCat from the Japan Knowledge Lib database and the JKBooks ebook platform. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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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December 6, 2010 |
OCLC Adds Content Accessible Through WorldCat Local Library users can now find more than 700 million items through the WorldCat Local service as the OCLC cooperative expands agreements with content providers to make more content in a variety of formats accessible to users. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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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October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
March 31, 2015 |
WorldCat Discovery Services Lands LexisNexis Academic The LexisNexis Academic database will be accessible via WorldCat Discovery Services for mutual subscribers. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
Information Today
August 2004
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
May 6, 2014 |
OCLC Adds Art History Resources to WorldCat OCLC introduced the Art Discovery Group Catalogue to bring together information from global art libraries into a single, searchable database in WorldCat. |
Information Today
June 27, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Two IT companies which focus on libraries are merging... OCLC will begin a pilot to make it easier to find and use electronic journals in library collections... ebrary is offering a growing collection of online books under a perpetual access model... |
Information Today
November 17, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ebrary Partners with Society of Manufacturing Engineers... CrossRef Drops DOI Retrieval Fees... OCLC Offers New Cataloging Program... |
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April 23, 2012 |
Academic Video Database Coming to EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM's academic video database to the Base Index of EDS and allows mutual customers to access the full video database. |
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
May 21, 2012 |
Brill and Publishing Technology Celebrate Launch of Brill Online For the first time, all of Brill's content from 20 subject specialties across three imprints (BRILL, Global Oriental, and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) is integrated within a single resource. |
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Windows Live Academic Search: The Details What does the new Windows Live Academic Search service really provide for users? How will it appeal to librarians? What relationships will it need to build with publishers? How will competitors react? Is Microsoft committed to the product? |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
November 19, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC Offers to Purchase netLibrary's Assets OCLC announced that it has made an offer to purchase "substantially all the assets of netLibrary and assume certain netLibrary liabilities"... |
Information Today
August 2002
Barbara Quint |
CrossRef Search and QuestionPoint offer challenges to traditional services Publishers International Linking Association announced plans to expand CrossRef, its master database of links... OCLC and the Library of Congress announced that on June 3 they would launch a beta test of QuestionPoint, their new collaborative reference service... etc. |
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July 31, 2014 |
Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology. |
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April 23, 2012 |
OCLC and Credo Reference Extend Partnership OCLC and Credo Reference announced a special collaboration project designed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users. |
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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. |
Search Engine Watch
April 12, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Information Today
June 21, 2012 |
OCLC Adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org OCLC is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. |
Information Today
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. |
