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Tips and Tricks: Getting social with WorldCat.org Research: Managing the collective collection 
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Name that author!WorldCat.org adds links to WorldCat Identities and British Library Direct document service One of the latest enhancements to WorldCat.org is a link to WorldCat Identities, an OCLC research prototype that creates a summary page for some 25 million personal and corporate authors mentioned in WorldCat. Located beneath the Details tab in WorldCat.org records, in the “About the Authors” section, an Identities page includes an interactive publication timeline, audience-level bar graph, links to profiles of related people or companies, and a tag cloud of associated subject headings.
In addition, research journal articles discoverable on WorldCat.org now include links to the British Library direct service, where electronic copies of the articles may be purchased. The links are provided in the “Get it” and “Buy This item” zones of a record. Approximately 4.6 million British Library articles are currently indexed in WorldCat.org. WorldCat.org is a destination site that lets Web searchers discover materials in the collections of WorldCat participating libraries. WorldCat Link ManagerNew name, new features, new connections Formerly known as 1Cate, WorldCat Link Manager allows users to link from an article citation to the full-text version of the article in your digital collection. The new name reflects the gradual merging of WorldCat data into Link Manager’s knowledgebase (and vice versa), as well as the increasing integration that users can expect between Link Manager and WorldCat.
The new name coincides with the addition of several user-requested enhancements:
Features added to CONTENTdm for digital collection managementNew functionality in CONTENTdm is making it easy for libraries to manage and access documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) and integrate digital collection growth into their cataloging workflows. With CONTENTdm 4.3, multiple-page PDF
files can be automatically converted to compound
objects with searchable full text, which
allows users to retrieve page-level search
results within a PDF. Full-text extraction and
generation of thumbnail images from the
PDF happen automatically. End users can also select The new CONTENTdm release also supports the OCLC Connexion digital import feature, which allows catalogers using the Connexion client to add digital items to CONTENTdm collections during the Connexion cataloging process. View the news release for more information. Coutts, Blackwell become WorldCat Selection partnersWorldCat Selection subscribers can now receive notification records for materials from two major materials vendors: Blackwell Book Services and Coutts Information Services. These two companies recently became active partners in WorldCat Selection, a service that allows selectors of library materials to view new title data from multiple materials vendors in one central, comprehensive system. Selection enables libraries to get WorldCat records for newly selected materials into their integrated library systems early in the technical services process, as well as share selection decisions with others in their institutions. It’s as easy as... EZproxyThe leading solution for providing users with remote access to Web-based licensed content offered by libraries, EZproxy has been acquired by OCLC from Useful Utilities of Peoria, Arizona. Useful Utilities founder Chris Zagar will join OCLC to ensure a smooth transition of EZproxy operations and to assist OCLC in developing state-of-the-art authentication services for the cooperative. OCLC will honor EZproxy’s current service arrangements whereby licensees continue to enjoy access to new releases of EZproxy and technical support at no additional charge. OCLC also will create new value for licensees by surfacing EZproxy in WorldCat.org to provide users with better access to library collections and services through WorldCat. View the news release for more information.
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