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Information Today
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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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. |
Information Today
July 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Headnotes has become integrated with Shepard's Reports to provide a more complete court case viewing service... Project MUSE, which provides online scholarly journals in the Arts, has signed up more than 20 journals for 2006... etc. |
Information Today
September 13, 2010 |
Ebook Collections Coming to Project MUSE Platform Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. |
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
December 19, 2011 |
New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live Jan. 1, 2012 At the launch of the new platform, more than 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers will be available alongside MUSE's more than 500 electronic journals. |
Information Today
August 18, 2011
Barbara Quint |
Project Muse Beta Tests New Platform Integrating Ebooks With Journals Project Muse is a leading provider of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences serving millions of users through its subscription arrangements with some 2,500 libraries. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
June 30, 2003 |
News Digest Proquest expands Canadian newspaper coverage... Project MUSE adds titles, announces pricing... LexisNexis acquires public records businesses |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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 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. |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
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
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better. |
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
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
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
November 29, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest PubSub Launches New Features for Blog Tracking Service... Kompass Adds Download Feature and New Portal Access... Project MUSE Announces New Titles and Pricing... |
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
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. |
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
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. |
Information Today
November 3, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ProQuest Links to Project MUSE Journals... Mergent to Include JCF Group Earnings Forecast Information... Dialog Adds New Medical Databases... |
Searcher
December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
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
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 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
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
January 26, 2009 |
OCLC Launches WorldCat Mobile Pilot OCLC has launched a pilot program to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices. |
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, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
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. |
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
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. |
Searcher
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? |
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
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
November 17, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ebrary Partners with Society of Manufacturing Engineers... CrossRef Drops DOI Retrieval Fees... OCLC Offers New Cataloging Program... |
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
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
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. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011 |
More Publishers to Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the initiative. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
