A variety of WorldCat services generate bibliographic records in OCLC-MARC format. OCLC makes copies of these records available for you to import to your local system to keep your local holdings in synch with your holdings in WorldCat. Downloading records on a regular basis makes it easier for your systems staff to manage and upload them into your OPAC.
Three ways to get records
Export is the immediate transfer of a locally-edited record into your OPAC.
EDX (Electronic Data Exchange) allows you to concatenate and download multiple files simultaneously using Internet FTP.
Product Services (PSWeb) is a Web-based interface that provides download access (HTTP protocol) not only for your files of OCLC-MARC records, but also for reports and statistics for OCLC services you use.
OCLC products or service options that provide OCLC-MARC records
| Product |
Generated records |
Frequency |
Delivery options |
| Connexion and CatExpress |
Allows you to immediately load edited records into your local system
from Connexion browser, Connexion client and CatExpress. OCLC-MARC bibliographic
records are produced when you send an Export command.
Or, through a simple OCLC-MARC Record Subscription, you can download files
of your edited cataloging records on a scheduled basis. Records are produced
when you send an Update, Replace & Update, Produce & Update, or Delete Holdings command. If you
are part of a consortium, multi-institution subscriptions are available. |
Immediate (Export)
Or,
as MARC subscription files:
Daily
Weekly
Biweekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Semiannually
|
Export
EDX
PSWeb |
| WorldCat Selection |
Creates file of records for download to your local system when acquisitions staff export selected records from the Selection service. |
Immediate |
Export |
| GovDoc |
Updated bibliographic records for U.S. government documents. Pre-catalaloged records for which subscribers can optionally provide 049-field holding codes–up to six per cataloged item. |
Monthly |
EDX
PSWeb |
| Custom cataloging |
OCLC professional catalogers take on your backlogs, retrospective projects,
ongoing cataloging support or handling of special format or non-English
materials. Your profile specifies your editing preferences. |
By project |
EDX
PSWeb
Custom |
| Batch processing |
Receive files of matched OCLC records or unmatched subsets of the files
you sent for processing. |
By project |
EDX
PSWeb |
| Bibliographic Record Notification |
Every day, this service compares all
upgraded OCLC-MARC records to the records your library has holdings attached
to, and then sends you upgraded records based on a detailed profile. |
Daily |
EDX
PSWeb |
| Cataloging Partners |
OCLC works with many of your favorite materials vendors, publishers and
importers to provide manually-edited full MARC records for each
title you order from the vendor's active title list. Each record is customized
to your local standards and edited by OCLC Custom Cataloging staff.. |
By order |
EDX
PSWeb |
| Language Sets |
You get everything you need to start, maintain or expand a non-English
language collection of books and videos, including MARC records for
each title, your library's symbol added to WorldCat, cataloging
and shipping. You define your cataloging preferences in a profile. |
By order |
EDX
PSWeb |
| Bibliographic Record Snapshot |
Whether your local system becomes corrupted or you inherit another library's collection, OCLC can supply OCLC-MARC records and local data for your holdings through bibliographic record snapshot. You may request a subset of your records within a date range or by specific holding library codes. |
By order |
EDX
PSWeb |
| WorldCat Collection Sets |
Sets of MARC records to coincide with sets of microform and electronic
content, ready to load into your local catalog. Various record processing
options are available, including adding fields, deleting fields and customizing
call numbers (available for most sets). |
By order |
EDX
PSWeb |
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