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Umlaut is OpenURL link resolving middleware that adds functions and services to commercial link resolving software such as SFX. The services also is capable of aggregating third party "know item services" and sharing them with other services such as the library catalog or federated search tool.

Location: http://getit.library.nyu.edu/resolve?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UT...

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SUNYCatalog searches all SUNY library collections by bringing together information from Worldcat.org, Google Books and other resources.

SUNYCatalog is a service of SUNYConnect, a joint initiative of the OLIS and the libraries of the 64 SUNY campuses to share collections and services across The State University of New York.

Location: http://search.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

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Developed very quickly at the OCLC Web Services workshop during Code4Lib 2010, this service lets you cut and paste any online article or URL into the search box. Then it uses the WorldCat Basic API to show all the relevant related references to additional reading materials from WorldCat.org.

Location: http://fuwat.to/worldcat

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This gem provides the rudimentary components for Ruby to make it easier to process OCLC-provided data. Essentially, these are a handful of convenience functions that make it much easier to call and utilize the data available through the WorldCat Search API.

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OCLC's xISBN web service allows you to look up other editions of a particular work using an ISBN. xisbn is a simple ruby library for doing these lookups.

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