"WorldCat Local offers more content from leading publishers"
Databases recently added to the WorldCat Local central index include:
- American Psychological Association: PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES
- Alternative Press Center: Alternative Press Index, Alternative Press Index Archive
Content providers that will soon add databases to the WorldCat Local central index include:
- Accessible Archives
- Oxford University Press
- Taylor & Francis
- CABI
- OECD
- Sabinet
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Databases now available in WorldCat Local through remote access:
- Gale: Contemporary Authors, ¡Informe!, Making of Modern Law, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
- EBSCO: ATLA Religion Database ™ with ATLASerials ™ , PsycEXTRA, PsycINFO
- H. W. Wilson: Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982, Essay & General Literature Index Retrospective
WorldCat Local now offers vendor record sets from:
- ProQuest: ProQuest U. S. Executive Branch Documents, 1910-1932
- ProQuest: Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945 (six collections in varying formats)
- Cassidy Cataloguing: Lexis I – E-treatises
The WorldCat Local search experience also grows richer with the ongoing addition of article-level metadata to WorldCat.org. When this metadata is added to WorldCat.org, it is automatically made part of WorldCat Local. Article-level metadata for the following resources have been added recently to WorldCat.org:
- ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Gale, Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.