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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
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
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:

  • Results specific to your library’s holdings
  • Deep links back to your catalog
  • Custom branding

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
Designers and Books

Designers and Books.com is devoted to publishing lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as personally important, meaningful, and formative—books that have shaped their values, their worldview, and their ideas about design.

The site profiles participating designers—from architects to car designers—to showcase what books have been most influential to each artist’s creative process, and a new list is added to the site each week. Once a reader identifies a particular work on the site, Designers & Books uses the data in WorldCat to provide library availability information and author profiles.

Mark Alhadeff, Ocean-7 Development
EasyBib

EasyBib offers a simple, easy and free way for students to create bibliographies and get citations, automatically. When a user searches for a book, EasyBib uses the WorldCat Search API to search by book title, keyword or ISBN. It then gives the user the chance to find out more about this source and find the item in a local library by linking to WorldCat.org results.

Neal Taparia, ImagineEasy Solutions
ERIC

ERIC provides Find in a Library links in records that contain an ISSN or ISBN. ERIC users navigate either to their institution’s holdings or to WorldCat.org for a list of the nearest libraries holding the resource.

Jane Atwell, ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
RefWorks

Through the OpenURL Gateway in the WorldCat Registry, RefShare “owners” can change the OpenURL link in their shared folder to point to their up-to-date WorldCat Registry information. This means that RefShare viewers, from any WorldCat-registered university, can now be directed to their full-text access. Before the OpenURL Gateway, users from outside the instiutions could not be redirected.

Colleen Stempien, RefWorks
WriteCite

WriteCite.com is a site that helps undergraduate and upper secondary high school students create automatic citations online. It was founded by a university lecturer in response to the growth of internet-enabled and non-traditional information sources that still require referencing by today's students. Started in 2009, the site provides citations in APA, Harvard and MLA styles and features a free mobile version, iCite APA that is available for Apple iOS and Android devices.WriteCite provides a way to search the world’s library collections via the WorldCat Search API, as well as library lookup functionality with the WorldCat Registry API.

Michael Hargreaves, MasterGraphics Pty Ltd
Zotero

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Zotero uses the WorldCat Registry's OpenURL Gateway as its default resolver. In many cases, it connects automatically to the resource on your campus.

Trevor Owens, Center for History and New Media

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