MORE 'OCLC' POSTS
From OCLC (aka Straight Out of Dublin): The OCLC Board of Trustees will engage OCLC members in the process to select a successor to Jay Jordan, who plans to retire as OCLC President and CEO at the end of June 2012. Larry Alford, Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees, and Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries, […]
From an OCLC Announcement: Jay Jordan will retire as President and CEO of OCLC Online Computer Library Center on June 30, 2012. The announcement was made today by OCLC Board Chair Larry Alford at the OCLC President’s Luncheon during the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, Louisiana. “Jay Jordan has informed […]
The new optional limiter was mentioned in a tweet earlier today by Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist at OCLC, Lorcan Dempsey. His tweet also includes a link to WorldCat Local at Washington St. University. When you click on the advanced search link you’ll spot the “only return peer-reviewed articles” option near the bottom of […]
Info Industry Briefs: News from Gale, Springer, OCLC, AAP, OverDrive, Ristech, B&T
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Gale Expands Three Acclaimed Digital Collections Springer launches SpringerReference.com Hat Tip/Thanks: Law Librarian Blog and No Shelf Required University of New Brunswick Libraries first in Canada to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services American Academy of Pediatrics Makes Content From Entire eBook Collection Available to Institutions With New Subscription Model OverDrive Adds Simultaneous […]
Milestones: 10 Millionth Record Added to WorldCat By an Open Access Publisher in Croatia
Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From an OCLC Announcement: A record for a book accessible online, titled Task-oriented and Purposeful Robot-Assisted Therapy, marked the 10 millionth record added to WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The record was harvested into WorldCat by staff at InTech, an open access publisher located in Rijeka, Croatia. [Clip] The WorldCat record links to […]
A new guest blog post on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog by Jim Michalko, VP in charge of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Michalko Writes: In a recent presentation to OCLC Global Council, OCLC provided some preliminary thoughts on open data licensing of member library catalog data. A number of OCLC members and groups have […]
"OCLC to Release 1 Million Bib Records"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Reports
|On The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory Blog, David Weinberger reports on Roy Tennant’s announcement about the one million bibliographic records during the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums) conference earlier today. UPDATE: Dr. Weinberger has posted a six interview talk with Tennant.
Discovery Services: WorldCat Local Adds New Databases and Collections During May
Data Files, Gale, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|This OCLC announcement includes the following list of new services added to the WorldCat Local Central Index during May, 2011. CrossRef, which provides bibliographic data and persistent links through Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for more than 35 million journal articles and other scholarly content. BioOne, which provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, […]
The mapFINDS app (Free) specifically focuses on material for the State of Ohio and was developed to serve as OCLC’s entry in Tech Ohio’s Mobile Apps Development Contest. It combines Ohio history with digitized historical material from a number of sources to make for a cool app and show off a great idea. After you […]
You’ve seem many web search resources offering search suggestions as you enter your query into the search box. With each letter entered the results can change. Now, WorldCat.org now also offering this feature with suggestions appearing where you’ve seen them elsewhere, directly below the search box. Click on a suggestion and run the search for […]