Skip to page content

Asia Pacific (English) Change

Overview

From the moment a person asks for an item to the time it's in hand, OCLC's far-reaching network minimizes the amount of time and money you spend—and maximizes your customer's satisfaction.

Users easily initiate their own requests

Fulfillment grows dramatically when your customers can place requests electronically without assistance. When you use WorldCat Resource Sharing, your users can submit interlibrary loan request from citations in FirstSearch databases, WorldCat.org or WorldCat Local. Each request includes accurate bibliographic information taken directly from the citation. Registered users of FirstSearch can track the progress of their requests. More self-service options and an even easier-to-use interface will expand as new delivery service is released in 2012.

Reduced demand on staff time

Your time costs money, and spending time locating materials through the multiple overlapping databases you may use now  results in redundant work for your staff. Powerful WorldCat searching finds you resource options locally, regionally and beyond, and does it all at once. You will save time with features that manage and automate fulfillment, including filters that ensure you receive requests only for items you own and supply.

Simple pricing matched to your situation

The goal of OCLC's global cooperative has always been to lower information costs for libraries and groups, regardless of size or level of sharing activity. WorldCat Resource Sharing continues this tradition with a single, annual subscription fee that is customized to your needs and prevents extra charges due to sudden spikes in usage.

Authoritative and efficient features

Whether you handle low volume or high volume, occasional requests or seasonal bursts of activity, the components of WorldCat Resource Sharing add up to comprehensive resource coverage and faster processing.

WorldCat search: Helpful to newcomers, powerful for everyone

Your staff locates resources with robust WorldCat searching. Basic, advanced and expert level search screens match skill level to search complexity. Browsing of subject headings and suggestions let novices find their way. More savvy users can hone their searches with a wide variety of indices and limiters; special search methods such as Boolean combinations and logical strings; plus ranking, sorting and breakdown of results by format.

Article Exchange: Secure, copyright-compliant delivery of document files

Remove the guess-work from delivery of large files such as articles and book chapters to your users.  ArticleExchange lets you place files up to 60 MB on a secure site for pick-up by authorized users.  The site supports the following file types: BMP, GIF,J2K, JIF, JFI, JFIF, JP2,JPE, JPEG, JPF, JPM, JPX, JPG, MDI, MJ2, PEG/JFIF, JPEG 2000, PDF, PNG, PSD, TIF, TIFF, TGA, TPIC and WEBP.

Automatic deletion of viewed documents after 5 days, and unviewed documents after 30 days insures compliance with standard copyright rules.

User registration: The customer's control center

FirstSearch-based account creation lets users (including your staff) create unique logons, through which they can store preferences, save searches, renew borrowed items, and cancel or review the status of pending requests. Pick-up location is displayed if an item is ready.

Request Manager: See everything that's happening

The staff view's control panel for all sharing activities, the Request Manager (above) clearly summarizes current sharing tasks that require action. Request Manager lets you search all task workforms by key criteria, batch-update requests and batch-print requests by category.

Direct Request: Automated fulfillment you control

Direct Request lets a user place a request from an online citation. That request can then bypass staff review and directly enter the WorldCat Resource Sharing system. Your Direct Request profile sets the criteria that determine if requests are manually processed or automatically sent to an eligible supplier, and whether sharing is available for items you already own. Turnaround time quickens, backlogs shrink and your staff can focus on other priorities.

Requests for electronic resources such as articles or e-books are now even easier to fill due to the interaction of Direct Request with the new WorldCat knowledge base. Article requests submitted through Direct Request pass through the knowledge base for an accurate determination of locally-owned items and potential lenders and lending libraries are equipped with links to the electronic resources in their collections along with the rules that govern their loan. Libraries that have loaded their local knowledge base into the WorldCat knowledge base can share electronic resources with borrowing libraries without time-consuming manual steps to locate and retrieve needed items.

Policies Directory: Set your rules for requests

You have one-click access to the OCLC Policies Directory, where you can review the lending and copying policies of other libraries participating in WorldCat Resource Sharing, plus their billing, system and contact information. Publish your own policies as well, to reduce the number of unfillable requests you receive.

Item-level policies based on local holdings records

Use custom holdings groups and data in the local holdings records to search and select more accurate lender strings based on information entered by participating libraries (when libraries' detailed local holdings information is up-to-date in WorldCat). Detailed settings in the local holdings record also allow lenders to designate item-level policies for copying and loaning materials, ensuring that lenders do not receive requests for items they are unable to fill.

E-books for short-term access

Expand access to library content available through WorldCat Resource Sharing to include access to a subset of e-books from Ingram's MyiLibrary e-book collection for a nine day period. The option will be available in ILLiad within the next several months. Get more information ››

More efficiency for your interlibrary loan operation

Save and reapply commonly used data, such as workform templates (constant data), frequent lenders (custom holdings) and boilerplate text (conditional notes). Recover administrative costs such as invoices and check writing with optional Fee Management. Monitor your interlibrary loan activity and see the big picture with reports and raw data that show you fill rates, borrowing/lending ratios and other statistics that can be used to justify expenditures and further improve service.

Sharing tailor-made for library groups

Library groups and consortia united by geography or subject matter can achieve efficient, cost-effective pooling of collections with WorldCat Resource Sharing. And through FirstSearch, users are always directed to local and groupowned materials first. Then they can "display holdings" to find items in the broader WorldCat universe.

WorldCat Resource Sharing can be part of a custom solution for library groups that features a group catalog with a single, unified view of the group's collection. Hosted by OCLC and contained within WorldCat, a group catalog includes unlimited use of resource sharing and cataloging, plus a customized interface.

ILLiad: Beyond standard sharing

Libraries and groups with special resource sharing needs should consider ILLiad, a solution that has WorldCat Resource Sharing at its core and offers complete sharing automation. ILLiad features specialized components, including a Copyright Tracking module, electronic document delivery, realtime statistics and support for OpenURL resolution.