WorldCat Search API
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Also Available at a WorldCat Library |
Created at the May 2009 WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, the “Also available at” sidebar in the Wageningen UR Library Catalogue development site uses the WorldCat Search API and the WorldCat Registry OpenURL Gateway to display a location-sensitive listing for other WorldCat libraries who also hold the item. |
Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University |
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BibMe |
BibMe is a free online automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. It uses the WorldCat Search API to fill in citation information for books, magazines, newspapers, Web sites, journals, films and more. Started in May 2007 as a student project at Carnegie Mellon University, it has grown to have more than 1 million registered users with more than 7.8 million bibliographies and 25.5 million citations. |
Jordan Messina, BibMe.com |
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Book Bazaar |
Book Bazaar is an iPhone app that lets you search for books online, compare prices and also find books in local libraries through their use of the WorldCat Search API. Then once you find the item you want, you can contact to the local library through information provided by the WorldCat Registry APIs such as address, phone and URL. |
Bayview Labs |
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Book Crawler |
A barcode scanning app for iPhone and iPad that makes use of the WorldCat Search API and WorldCat Registry APIs to show library materials availability and location. |
Jaime Stokes |
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BookMinder Android App |
This prototype Android app uses the WorldCat Search API to get citations and nearby libraries for books. Users can scan a barcode or search for a title either by a keyword search or using the device’s support for voice recognition. Users can then select items to add to their personalized list of things. The mobile device’s GPS tells the app where the user is and the app uses that information and the Search API to find nearby libraries. |
Bruce Washburn, OCLC Research |
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Campus Books |
iPhone app that lets you scan a barcode or enter a title, author, keyword, or ISBN in order search for books online, compare prices and also find books in local libraries through their use of the WorldCat Search API. Then once you find the item you want, you can contact to the local library through information provided by the WorldCat Registry APIs such as address, phone and URL. |
CampusBooks.com |
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Citavi |
Created by the company Swiss Academic Software, Citavi assists with reference management and knowledge organization. More than simply a citation service, Citavi provides all the tools necessary for scholarly writing and research such as searching online resources, creating essay outlines and even a project task planner. It helps a user find, structure and then document the information they find—quickly and easily. Citavi uses the WorldCat Search API so that students and researchers can find more of the world’s information in libraries more quickly and use it more effectively. |
Swiss Academic Software GmbH, Swiss Academic Software |
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Cite this |
This application uses the WorldCat Search API in order to provide users with citations in various formats. Users click on the "Cite" link on a given record and a pop-up window with citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian styles are displayed. |
Rob Casson, Miami University |
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CiteMe Facebook App |
A Facebook app that delivers formatted citations from WorldCat from right within Facebook. You can add the app to personal profiles or organizational Pages. |
Bruce Washburn, OCLC Research |
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Credo Reference |
If your library has Credo Reference Topic Pages, you can add WorldCat data to them and customize the results using the WorldCat Search API. Customized results can include:
Start the process to get your customized Topic Pages now. Note: if you don't have Topic Pages, there's a special promotion going on, that you can try them out for an introductory period, now through 30 June 2012.) Information from Credo, on how to add WorldCat results to your Credo Topic Pages. |
Nancy King, Credo Reference |
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