WorldCat Collection Analysis Enhancements: September, 2007

The following product enhancements were added to the WorldCat Collection Analysis user interface in September, 2007.

1.)     You can now graph your analysis results by column (in addition to graphing by row).  This makes it easier to graph data across multiple criteria (e.g. holdings in a publication date range by subject; holdings by subject in a particular format, etc.).

2.)     You can now limit your analysis by LC, Dewey, or NLM call number.  This allows you to quickly drill-down to the most granular level of the Conspectus that contains the call number you are interested in.

Column Graphing

To see a visual representation of your analysis results, simply click on the graph icon above the column data you would like to graph, as shown below.

The resulting graph will look like this…

 Limiting by Call Number

No matter what analysis you are running (My Library, WorldCat Comparison, ILL Analysis, Peer comparison, etc.), you can search by a particular call number by clicking on the Limit Analysis button…

…and typing your call number of interest…

Then click Run Analysis…

Your results are instantly limited to the most granular level of the Conspectus that contains your call number (in this case American Literature – Folklore & Folk Literature, representing call numbers PS451-PS478).  Because your results have already been limited to the most granular level of the Conspectus, drilling down into the Language, Linguistics & Literature division is unnecessary.

Drilling-down will return the same set of results.

(2007 09 24)