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GovDoc

GovDoc at a glance

OCLC GovDoc provides monthly updated bibliographic records for U.S. government documents to the regional and selective depository libraries that hold them.

Benefits

  • Save time and money by loading all document records at once rather than making staff catalog items individually
  • Make public information available more quickly to patrons and increase its usage

Features

  • Pre-cataloged records for high-demand content
  • Holdings of materials automatically set in WorldCat
  • MARC record files provided as electronic files via FTP or Web download
  • Subscribers can optionally provide 049-field holding codes, up to six per cataloged item

Requirements

  • Your institution must be a participating library in the Federal Depository Library Program
  • You do not have to be an OCLC member library to use GovDoc

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