This case study suggests and evaluates one such method for discovery of open access and other cost-free scholarly monographs produced in Latin America. There is as of yet no single way to identify all of this content at once, but web-based discovery leveraging existing search engine indexing would seem to be a likely option. Partner content providers add records to WorldCat-sometimes before a resource is published-so library users can find the information they need as soon as it’s available.Many Latin American scholarly monographs are available for free to read and download in a scattered fashion across the web, hosted on educational, institutional and government websites as well as commercial websites and publishing platforms. These librarians copy cataloged 17,101,022 titles during that year, so they saved around 3 million hours of time, collectively. In calendar year 2020, OCLC member librarians copy cataloged 95% of their items from WorldCat, saving an average of 10 minutes per title. WorldCat helps you share what makes your library great to make all libraries better.īy enabling libraries to share high-quality library metadata and bibliographic records with each other, WorldCat has helped librarians dramatically reduce the time they spend on original cataloging. Library staff members also enhance records through the OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Subscription (previously the OCLC Cataloging Subscription), making these records the industry standard for quality. OCLC’s team of expert catalogers and data quality specialists constantly enrich WorldCat records with new and corrected information to ensure that WorldCat contains the highest quality records possible.
Unique in scale and unparalleled in data quality, WorldCat makes library collections findable and accessible around the world. WorldCat is the manifestation of the creativity and innovation of the staff of OCLC and thousands of librarians.
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