WorldCat Resource Sharing at a glance
WorldCat Resource Sharing provides time-saving, efficient inter-library lending tools that simplify library workflows and connect information seekers to materials in 10,000 libraries in 40 countries.
Benefits
- Connects users to materials in libraries around the world
- Decreases costs and saves time through integrated management of request direction and deflection, fee management, custom holdings settings and user-initiated requests
- Increases use of your collections
- Saves time for our staff because more than 95 percent of your ILL requests will be filled through a single service
- Simplifies user access to electronic resources through a rich and growing knowledge base of ownership data for popular electronic content collections
- Minimizes receipt of requests you can't fill due to filtering based on your local rules
- Enables secure, copyright-compliant delivery of large PDF files
- Reduces need for training because contextual help is always a click away
- Eliminated the need to maintain software locally - Web interface means you always have the latest version
- Connects you to leading online document suppliers including Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (GEBAY) and The British Library
- Meets the needs to low - or high volume interlibrary loan needs and accommodates seasonal fluctuations in activity
- Save costs with short-term access to e-books
Features
- An established network of thousands of libraries worldwide
- Offers your users multiple self-service options for online ordering
- Custom subscription pricing
- Web-based interface with contextual help and online tutorials
- Integration with the OCLC FirstSearch reference service
- Basic, advanced and expert searching
- Unmediated user-initiated ILL
- Interaction with the WorldCat knowledge base means fast delivery of electronic articles and e-books
- Deflection options automatically skip lenders who cannot provide requested items, saving time and getting items to users more quickly
- Policies Directory lets you review other OCLC libraries' lending rules and set your own
- Fee Management simplifies billing with lending partners
- Comprehensive usage reports provide statistics for funding justification
- Requires only a Web browser and Internet access
- Short-term access to e-books
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